Power and welfare : understanding citizens' encounters with state welfare /
spine title : Power and welfare.
Nanna Mik-Meyer and Kaspar Villadsen.
- xi, 162 pages ; 25 cm.
- Routledge advances in health and social policy. .
Includes bibliographical references : (pages [147]-155) and index.
Introduction -- Foucault: the flexible critique of welfare -- Goffman: interaction and identity negotiations -- Bourdieu: field, symbolic violence and domination -- Luhmann: welfare in communicative systems -- Neo-institutional theory: myths and legitimacy -- Risk theory: normality, deviation and neo-liberalism -- Transcending the approaches.