The Expansion of Regulation in Welfare Governance
This article provides a historical and theoretical account of the emerging regulatory welfare state, which is greatly understudied in contemporary regulatory and welfare research. We analyze the interplay between the welfare state and the regulatory state in an age in which regulation is expanding through liberalization, privatization, and the new public management of social services. We then provide a multi-faceted framework for understanding the regulatory welfare state and discuss its implications in terms of (1) the normative social goals of the state; (2) the ways in which social policy is delivered through institutions; and (3) the implications of the framework for individuals’ rights and duties.
David Levi-Faur is a Professor of regulation and policy at the Department of Political Science and the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a founding editor of Regulation & Governance, a top journal that serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance in the social sciences.
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Avishai Benish is an Assistant Professor (tenured) at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of expertise are social law and administration, and his main research is on regulation and governance reforms in welfare states.