TERMS OF HISTORY Welfare State Human society across millennia has known ups and downs. To cope with times of famine and disease, communities large...
In what way does the welfare state of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries differ from the monarchical state of three hundred years ago?
a.It measures success by the tax revenues each citizen provides the government.
b.It protects men only.
c.It is less people-oriented.
d.It encompasses obligations and responsibilities beyond defense.
What leader did politicians have in mind when creating the welfare state after World War II?
a.Eleanor Roosevelt
b.Mohandas Gandhi
c.Winston Churchill
d.Adolf Hitler
TERMS OF HISTORY Welfare State Human society across millennia has known ups and downs. To cope with times of famineand disease, communities large and small have devised strategies that would provide foodor handle large numbers of people with communicable diseases. Monarchs in the earlymodern period often took responsibility for dispatching stores of food to areas suffering frommenacing shortages. Should plague hit, there were rules for tending to the sick and fordisposing of the dead. Othenlvise states focused on issues of war. expansion, and socialorder, with leaders sometimes sewing as religious or spiritual leaders. Under the nation-state in more modern times, liberal theory held that governmentsshould be minimal and that individuals needed to handle their own problems. In some ways,this view of the state as an overarching institution for defense was similar. Liberals saw noneed for the state to provide any kind of assistance to the poor or those in difficulty. whoshould provide for themselves. Still, states in the nineteenth century offered pensions(although not always paying them) to the citizen-soldier as opposed to the dragooned veteran of the old regime. Some have seen pensions for veterans as the beginning of thewelfare state in which the national community cared for worthy citizens who had performeda service.
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