The Welfare Trait How State Benefits Affect Personality /

• Main Author: Perkins, Adam (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social policy.; Well-being.; Children.; Welfare state.; Social service.; Developmental psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Social Sciences.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Social Policy.; Developmental Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Social Care.; Child Well-being.

The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its own economic and social foundations. In The Welfare Trait, award...