Practice question · Numerical answer
How many new social risks does Taylor-Gooby identify?
Hints
- More than three, fewer than seven.
- Work-family reconciliation, single parenthood, frail relatives, obsolete skills, and thin coverage.
Show the answer
5
Why
Five. What they share is that each arises from a change the post-war design did not anticipate: women in continuous employment, unstable family forms, longer old age, faster skill obsolescence and discontinuous careers.
Practise From the Minimal State to the Welfare State
The app has 5 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. Political Science I is free to start.
More questions on From the Minimal State to the Welfare State
- Sort each risk by whether it is an OLD social risk the classic welfare state was designed for, or a NEW one…
- Addressing 'new social risks' demands direct services rather than classic cash transfers. What administrative…
- Why is a state that delivers pensions administratively different in kind from one that delivers only justice…
- Public spending in Western Europe rose from roughly a tenth of GDP in 1900 to around 40–50% by the mid-1970s.
- Complete the account of the state's changing tasks.
- Arrange these phases of the state and its administration in order.
- New social risks fall disproportionately on people with long, continuous contribution records.
- Arrange these developments in the growth of the administrative state in order.