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691 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 7 (2020)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0691 and id is 1 raw text is: The Reassertion of the Regulatory Welfare State: A Preface By AVISHAI BENISH and DAVID LEVI-FAUR The preface presents the main themes of this special issue. It starts by presenting the argument that the welfare state and the regulatory state are not dichoto- mies, arguing that both regulation and fiscal transfers for social purposes are increasing, particularly after the financial crisis of 2007, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 crisis. Then it moves to introduce the arti- cles that compose this special issue, their arguments, and their theoretical and empirical contributions. Keywords: welfare state; regulation; governance; social services; social benefits; fiscal transfers; social rights T his special issue explores the expansion of regulation in the welfare state and in the social policy arena. Regulation and fiscal trans- fer by governments for social purposes have always been intertwined, before, during, and after the heyday of the welfare state after the Second World War. Both continue to grow, although regulation is growing faster and per- haps further than fiscal transfer. As the articles in this special issue demonstrate, they reassert 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. David Levi-Faur is a professor of regulation and policy in 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 journal that serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and govern- ance in the social sciences. NOTE: We would like to thank the Israeli Science Foundation for their Research Grant (1029/15) and Workshops Grant (2223/18). This is also the opportu- nity to thank our research assistants, Yuval Peleg, Daniel Hirsch, and Tslil Landau. Correspondence: levifaur@mail. huji. ac.il DOI: 10.1177/0002716220949216 ANNALS, AAPSS, 691, September 2020

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