Welfare State and Civil Society: The Lines of Coupling in the Conditions of Modernization Transformation

Abstract

In the article the state of civil society is related to the development of the Welfare State in the face of accelerated transformation of State forms and institutions of public life. Legally-legal characteristic of the Welfare State is that it is a democratic State. In its policy the Welfare State follows the goal of ensuring stable material well-being of people and civil liberties for creative self-realization of person. In addition, the State of social type assumes as its conditions and consequences a developed civil society. The second characteristic of the Welfare State is connected with the ongoing orientation of social policy on the implementation of statutory civil human rights provided by law. The basis of its development is political, economic, cultural and moral processes in their humanistic contents.