List of Tables and Figures Preface Part I: Background 1. Introduction 2. Measuring the Distributional Impact of the Welfare State: Methodological Issues Part II: The Origins of the Welfare State 3. Risk Sharing and Social Justice: The Motivational Foundations of the Post-War Welfare State Part III: The Operation of the Welfare State 4. US Anti-Poverty Policy and the Non-Poor: Some Estimates and their Implications 5. The Middle-Class Use of the British Social Services 6. Creeping Universalism in the Australian Welfare State 7. Distributional Biases in Social Service Delivery Systems Part IV: The Challenge to the Welfare State 8. The Middle Classes and the Defence of the British Welfare State 9. The Expansion and Contraction of the American Welfare State Part V: Conclusion 10. Not Only the Poor About the Author References Index