The moral economy of welfare states: Britain and Germany compared / Steffen Mau.

Introduction
Self-interest and pocket-book attitudes
Beneficial involvement
Rising demands and ungovernability
Legitimation crisis: value for meaning
The welfare backlash and a rational opposition
Entrenched interests and 'varieties of capitalism'
Policy reforms: designing institutions for knaves
The admixture of motives: broadening the perspective
Preference formation beyond self-interest
Institutions: material incentives and social norms
The moral economy of welfare state institutions
The homo reciprocus
Policy designs and the repertoire of motives
Summary
An analytical framework
Welfare institutions and public attitudes
Survey data and methods
The state of welfare
A comparative framework
The welfare legacy in Britain
Laissez-faire and new liberalism
Moving towards a Beveridgean social service state
A welfare consensus, social rights and symptoms of crisis
The neo-conservative era
The activating welfare state
The welfare legacy in Germany
Conservative authoritarianism
The social market economy
Party responses to institutional drawbacks
The impact of unification and new pressures on the welfare state
Welfare regimes and their moral economies: some preliminary thoughts
The logic of popular support for welfare schemes and their objectives
Redistribution in our heads: givers and takers
Interests and interpretations
Assessing the redistributive impact
A legitimate agenda for redistribution?
Paying taxes: value for money and the fairness issue
Burdensome taxation and the disapproval of redistribution
Conclusion.