The Welfare State

The Welfare State

by A, M. Scarpitta

According to some authors, the welfare state is a system of government based on policy proposals, social and economic conditions in which the state is the guarantor of basic rights to all inhabitants of a country through social services. During the nineteenth century made a profound intellectual difference between the illustration and despotism on the issue of poverty and inhumane conditions of the population of the age in which few had access to basic needs to live, among other points of divergence. The problem was not the person but the system and form of government, which provoked social issue that was expressed through political pressure from social movements, political and revolutionary. As a result there was a progressive advances in small steps in the legislation of the time about the status of the masses. Over the years, measurements were increasing in Europe namely: (Wohlfahrtsstaat 1871, "welfare state" (tat-Providence) 1852-1870 and in the twentieth century in the United States with the New Deal - 1933. This concept has its origin in 1945, after the Second World War, mainly in Europe, based on a more equitable sharing of benefits and wealth across the population in order to avoid social inequality. This inequality was one of the many consequences that led to the Second World War. Moreover, theorists of totalitarian systems, based their social conceptions that the totalitarian system showed (wrongly) that they could solve social problems more effectively than democracies. But at great cost to subdue the natural condition of man as a free thinker. After World War II, major social and political actors advocated more worthy and comprehensive systems of social protection, education and health services and social grants. In the twentieth century, the progressive implementation of social policies in Western Europe led to economic growth and social success of this, what became known as the welfare state. He based his principles in defense of human rights, human dignity and the general welfare in a degree of equality. This concept is complementary to the concept of democracy. (This last is in constant construction and unfortunately also under constant threat.) The Scandinavian countries are the most successful case of social welfare state, in which there is widespread access regardless of race, sex, sexual condition, and so on. social services and human working conditions and wage. As a partner we can argue that is also characterized by a high percentage of taxes that are intended for such purposes. The great principle that we can summarize, it is not a statist conception or privatizing it by a notion of satisfaction of basic needs of citizens, when the

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market fails and just leaves out those most vulnerable sectors of society, including minority and the elderly.That's where the state must ensure that they meet those basic rights. To do this protection against these risks exist in the labor market, based on principles of equity and efficiency that any state or company should take as its philosophy. Moreover, there are several arguments for and against the scheme but I think it is the natural principle of human dignity and a decent life with a job, salary and housing accordingly. Globally, we are experiencing great values and social crisis whose unbridled consumerism backdrop of a society increasingly consumerist and devoid of human dignity that is consistent with the economic crises of recent years. In a world increasingly dehumanized and material is reassuring that systems are still claiming human dignity without any exclusions. Finally, could sum up the current scenario of globalization we are living in a phrase whose author I do not remember: "We are consumers of the Century, but with rights and duties of citizens of the seventeenth century"

A. M. Scarpitta.International Relations