What is a welfare state?

Answer 1

It is a social system in which the state takes overall responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, providing health care, education, unemployment compensation and social security. There are two models of organizing a welfare state: # The state is primarily concerned with directing the resources to "the people most in need". This requires a tight bureaucratic control over the people concerned, with a maximum of interference in their lives to establish who are "in need" and minimize cheating. The unintended result is that there is a sharp divide between the receivers and the producers of social welfare, between "us" and "them", the producers tending to dismiss the whole idea of social welfare because they will not receive anything of it. This model is dominant in the US. # The state distributes welfare with as little bureaucratic interference as possible, to all people who fulfill easily established criteria (e.g. having children, receiving medical treatment, etc). This requires high taxation, of which almost everything is channeled back to the taxpayers with minimum expenses for bureaucratic personnel. The intended - and also largely achieved - result is that there will be a broad support for the system since most people will receive at least something. This model was constructed by the Scandinavian ministers Karl Kristian Steincke and Gustav Möller in the 30s and is dominant in Scandinavia.

Answer 2

A state which care for the basic needs of it's citizens and enables them to live a peaceful life .This is called welfare state.

Answer 3

A country's government which provide people with a low income or disabilities financial and medical aid through taxation.

Answer 4

A welfare state refers to a system in which the state takes care of health andwell-beingof citizens by providing different services and benefits.