Review article
GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND RENEWAL OF WELFARE CONSENSUS
Neven Cvetićanin
; Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
The text is discussing the possibility of Welfare State reactualization in the
perspective of global economic crisis which endangers the neoliberal economic
paradigm. First of all, the text represents the principles of the classic
Welfare State model which was realized after the Second World War in Europe.
The possibility of reactualization of some of these principles afterwards
is investigated in the text. The essay comes to the conclusion that so called
“Welfare Consensus” between moderated Left and moderated Right needs to
be restored for creation of a large social basis which can enable one complex
postneoliberal politics. This postneoliberal politics asks for a new economic
paradigm, and this new paradigm can be founded only by a moderated Left
and a moderated Right consensus, which was previously realized in the classic
Welfare State as the defense against all adventurous political projects.
Keywords
welfare state; reactualization; global economic crisis; global welfare consensus; moderated Left; moderated Right; pluralism; new economic paradigm
Hrčak ID:
57669
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2010.
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