THE WELFARE STATE: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL ANALYSIS
In this article the author examines and analyzes the nature and evolution of the welfare state, the main stages of its development, principles and functions of social state, limited use of the welfare state in the UK as part of the research dedicated to the social and labor legislation of the United Kingdom in the second half of the twentieth century. The author points out the importance of developing a new approach to understanding the social state principle and its application in practice to ensure high levels of public utility, consisting in improving the standard of living of the population, as well as the modernization of the economic sphere, the development of science and social technology. The mere existence of the welfare state is a natural result to which society has come as a result of its development. An illustrative example is the welfare state in the UK at the stages from inception to the cancellation of some social laws at the moment. However, it should be noted that in this country, the welfare state, an effective and progressive in the postwar years, has lost its advantages in the development of society. The article analyzes the development of British scientists, such as G.Espina-Andersen, F. von Hayek, and Russian researchers, including MV, Lushnikova, AM Lushnikova, OV Rodionova, SV Kalashnikov VN Safonov. The scientific and legal literature offered several different classifications of models of the welfare state. They occur most common symptoms, allowing to classify the social state probation. The analysis allows to draw two main conclusions: first, on the specific laws of the crisis of the welfare state, and, secondly, to maintain its political and legal capacity in national-specific form.