The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State - Paperbackby Pierre Rosanvallon (Author), Barbara Harshav (Translator) How social and intellectual changes undermine our justifications for the welfare state The welfare state has come under severe pressure internationally, partly for the well known reasons of slowing economic growth and declining confidence in the public sector. According to the influential social theorist Pierre Rosanvallon, however, there is also a deeper and less familiar reason for the