Subject(s): Welfare -- Poverty -- self-interest and pocket book attitude -- Beneficial involvement, Rising demand and ungovernability, Legitimation crisis:, Welfare backlash and rational opposition, varieties of capitalises , Policy reforms -- Admixture of motives: bordering the perspective -- Institutions: material incentives and social norms, Moral economy of welfare state institutions, Homo reciprocus, Policy designs and the repertoire of motives -- Welfare institutions and public attitudes, Survey data and methods -- State of welfare -- Comparative framework, Welfare legacy in Britain and Germany, Welfare regimes and their moral economies -- Logical popular support for welfare schemes and their objectives -- Redistribution, Two moralities of giving assistance to the poor, Unemployment provision, old age: transfers from the active to the inactive, health: risk distribution and cost sharing