Alaska has come to be dominated by welfare-state conservatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alaska's Congressmen] Reference

The Attlee government had invented the mixed economy and the welfare-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commanding Heights] Reference

Forcing poor minority people to live your commie welfare-state hellhole is racist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Beck vs Social Justice] Reference

But don't think the butcher's bill is paid for by all this welfare-state generosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ian Fletcher: Economists Shocked, Shocked: We Really Are Losing Jobs to China!] Reference

It was not because Americans are suddenly in love with welfare-state liberal economics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Obama's Support For FISA Cave-In Is Such A Downer] Reference

Although the welfare-state narrative contains some nuggets of truth, it is fundamentally flawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden Bello: Greece: Same Tragedy, Different Scripts] Reference

Both Merkel and Sarkozy are "welfare-state conservatives" rather than ideologically pure socialists.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Day for American-European Relations?] Reference

This seems like a small move away from welfare-state socialism and I'm glad to see Krugman embrace it.    From Wordnik.com.  [I (More or Less) Agree With Krugman, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The welfare-state obits are likely premature, but this much is true: failure to change could be deadly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dole Loses Its Job] Reference

The credit-bubble welfare-state polity is on its last legs, both in America and across the western world.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

Now Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is out to retool the modern welfare-state model thatmade Sweden famous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Word: Fredrik Reinfeldt] Reference

More recently, Iceland became a place of wild neoliberal ambitions and Scandinavian welfare-state underpinnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Solnit: The Icelandic Volcano Erupts] Reference

Meanwhile, welfare-state benefits were showered on middle-class Germans, luring them into dependency on the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bismarck's Welfare State Legacy] Reference

The welfare-state created by the Democrats has made a whole class of people completely dependent on the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [the cornstalk fence] Reference

A generation ago, voters turned against the Democrats for the excesses of their welfare-state, big-government thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: Food Fight in the Big Tent] Reference

They're old-line, welfare-state solutions that haven't spent enough time in the microwave to appear even superficially appetizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Vegas Review Journal's Endorsement Of Obama Is Less Than Enthusiastic] Reference

But he also believes, passionately, in the welfare-state liberal agenda espoused by Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slow Motion] Reference

Popular conservative writer Michelle Malkin called the gathered Atlanta crowd "moochers" and called Section 8 a "welfare-state relic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Angela Glover Blackwell: Are We Seeing the Same America?] Reference

In Europe, the expansion of state powers and spending snuffed out more than a decade of economic liberalization and welfare-state reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t Waste A Crisis] Reference

I think many welfare-state liberals and leftists and democratic socialists and the like would be much more favorably inclined towards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – October – 03] Reference

These are really liberal welfare-state societies, where production is private but the surplus is siphoned off, through taxes, to the consumers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism] Reference

Libertarians are widely seen as welfare-state abolitionists - people who want to eliminate government's "safety-net" role, not make it more efficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [EconLog: Economic Philosophy Archives] Reference

And in one way that is especially appropriate: in his later work Rawls insists that welfare-state capitalism does not constitute a just basic structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberalism] Reference

Martin Luther King Jr. You mean the guy whose inner-circle consisted mostly of socialists, labor organizers, war protesters and welfare-state advocates?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism] Reference

At a minimum, it's an occasion to pull up our collective socks and rethink some welfare-state attitudes about work, investment, entitlements and spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Scare Reprise] Reference

Among the remaining Europeans, political support for welfare-state policies will solidify, even as the economic viability of those policies slips further.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entrepreneurial Society, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The government also is proposing to lower the minimum wage by one euro an hour, to € 7.65, a sacred cow of the welfare-state crowd if ever there was one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland] Reference

Meanwhile, instead of backing off from such dangerous welfare-state initiatives, the new Obama administration and Pelosi-Reid Congress last year doubled down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Basel's Capital Illusions] Reference

Many Americans, in my experience, think it means someone who supports basic welfare-state provisions like unemployment insurance, Medicare and Social Security.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama and the Pink Scare] Reference

To support the millions of people who had lost their jobs, some governments granted more generous unemployment benefits and related welfare-state entitlements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subsidize Credit, Not Bad Banks] Reference

While Mr. Claro sometimes criticized their purist vision for lacking sufficient welfare-state safeguards, he was sent in 1974 to New York as ambassador-at-large.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Sent Ships, Wines and a Message] Reference

Stagnant economies produce few employment opportunities for the young, who then become disaffected and angry, even as they receive generous welfare-state benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Near-Bankrupt Greece Offers the Wider World a Lesson] Reference

These sad statistics say as much about Europe's labor markets, lingering welfare-state policies and corporate leadership as they do about its attitudes toward women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth and Reality] Reference

During his five years at the helm of the nation's budget, the president has expanded a wide array of "compassionate" welfare-state, defense, and nondefense programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's up to 882.] Reference

The job losses and other ills afflicting developing nations which Mr. Rasmussen laments are, in part, the result of Europe's own protectionist welfare-state policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [We've Seen This Future and It Doesn't Work Very Well] Reference

This all-too-familiar phenomenon in the modern capitalist welfare-state is evident from the striking lack of political participation by the poorest members of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Position] Reference

welfare-state expansions brought on an explosion of divorce and illegitimacy only justifying another round of welfare-state expansions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reality Check] Reference