Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the welfare state in order.
- Bismarck's social insurance schemes
- Activation conditions and later retirement ages
- The Beveridge Report
- Postwar expansion across Western Europe
- The crisis of the mid-1970s
Hints
- The German schemes are the earliest by six decades.
- Beveridge was written during the Second World War, before the expansion it shaped.
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- Bismarck's social insurance schemes
- The Beveridge Report
- Postwar expansion across Western Europe
- The crisis of the mid-1970s
- Activation conditions and later retirement ages
Why
The sequence contains the lesson's main correction: the crisis of the 1970s did not end the welfare state, it reshaped it. The last item is what replaced dismantling, the same commitments, delivered on tighter conditions and later in life.
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