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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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