English to Serbian Social Sciences History uvođenje socijalnih programa

However, democracy would be the more easily tameable, the less acute its discontents. The new strategy thus implied a readiness to venture into programmes of social reform and welfare, which undermined the classic mid-century liberal commitment to governments which kept out of the field reserved for private enterprise and self-help. The British jurist, A. V. Dicey (1835-1922), saw the steamroller of collectivism, which had been in motion since 1870, flattening the landscape of individual liberty into the centralized and levelling tyranny of school meals, health insurance and old age pensions. And in a sense he was right. Bismarck, logical as always, had already decided in the 1880s to cut the ground from under socialist agitation by an ambitious scheme of social insurance, and he was to be followed on this road by Austria and the British Liberal governments of 1906-14 (old age pensions, public labour exchanges, health and unemployment insurance), and even, after several hesitations, France (old pensions , 1911). Curiously ednough, the Scandinavian countries, now the 'walfare states' par excellence, were slow off the mark and several countries made only nominal gestures in this direction, the USA of Carnegie, Rockfelloer and Morgan none at all...