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Welfare state — Wikipedia (en)

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A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life. There is substantial variability in the form and trajectory of the welfare state across countries and regions. All welfare states entail some degree of private–public partnerships wherein the administration and delivery of at least some welfare programs occur through private entities. Welfare state services are also provided at varying territorial levels of government. The contemporary capitalist welfare state has been described as a type of mixed economy in the sense of state interventionism, as opposed to a mixture of planning and markets, since economic planning was not a key feature or component of the welfare state. Early features therein, such as public pensions and social insurance, developed from the 1880s onwards in industrializing Western countries. World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II have been characterized as important events that ushered in the expansion of the welfare state. The fullest forms of the welfare state were developed after World War II.

Tema degli esploratori: governance digitale e beni comuni (deposito sistematico; ricerca «commons-based peer production»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Welfare state» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state
Wikidata Q192451 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192451
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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