welfare state for several reasons. Prominent among these is the difficulty of creating broad social solidarity in an … ethnically divided society: solidarity which is allegedly necessary for sustaining public support for the welfare state. This …. Israel would appear to be a near-perfect example of how ethnic and religious heterogeneity strains social solidarity and, in …

crisis, the "obvious" concepts of social security and solidarity were in dispute and are currently in a process of … redefinition. Undoubtedly, insurance is a way of producing solidarity and nowadays redistribution methods are put into question. At … main aspect of the welfare state is the existence of solidarity with social content but how can this be implemented when …