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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A sense of solidarity creates a readiness to share with strangers, which in turn underpins a thriving welfare state .
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At the local level it was expressed by a shared set of values and policies, operating within a welfare state consensus.
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Because the welfare state is not neutral with respect to gender equality, it also takes sides on the question of language.
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For the past 150 years socialism and the social welfare state have provided this source of new ideas.
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Its focus is the relevance of political and social ideas to public choices in the welfare state and social policy more generally.
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The welfare state and the managed economy did not suddenly emerge full-blown in this period.
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The liberal politicians sigh with relief and continue their efforts to enlarge the welfare state .