Kharchenko O. Welfare State Crisis: Causes and Ways of Surmounting.

The thesis deals with analysis of "social state" and "welfare state crisis" concept. Defined, characterized, as well as highlighted the advantages and disadvantages of the target, corporate and universal welfare state models. Analyzed exogenous (cyclicity of social development, the nature of the political struggle, globalization, migration, and the transition to a post-industrial society), internal (aging of population, birth-rate failing, changing the balance between work and personal life) factors and forms of the welfare state crisis (imbalance between spending on social policy and income of social security funds; increase in loans, the cost of financing social policy; protests and strikes against the reduction and/or reform of the welfare state as a means to overcome its crisis) manifestation. Analyzed in details main surmounting of the welfare state crisis. Indicated that overcoming the welfare state crisis consists from elimination of the consequences (budget balance and economic growth renewal) as well as reducing the impact of the factors that caused welfare state crisis (social investment).