A long article at Boston Review looks at the thought of John Rawls and the welfare state in the context of the 2012 presidential race.
However, the adaptability of the developed welfare models in the context of a different country needs additional research, which is an excellent topic for a follow-up project.
In democratic countries like America, visionary leaders such as Theodore Roosevelt, who busted oligopolies, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who introduced the New Deal, and Lyndon Baines Johnson, who build on FDR's welfare programs in the context of the civil rights movement, were responsible for the empowerment of American bureaucracy and expansion of public services for ordinary citizens.
Only very few publications address welfare considerations in the context of animal model building and evaluation (e.g. [ 120]).
Seventy-five percent of those experienced some contact with the child welfare system, mostly in the context of abuse and neglect proceedings.
For example, we might evaluate the relative welfare of countries (which we might model as agents for some purposes) by reference to their per capita incomes, and we might evaluate the relative welfare of an animal, in the context of predicting and explaining its behavioral dispositions, by reference to its expected evolutionary fitness.
Although animal welfare is not included in the scope of the World Trade Organization remit and its rules, welfare considerations are a reality in the context of global trade.
This is of special relevance in the context of welfare regulation in commercial aquaculture and recreational angling; accordingly, the fish consciousness literature has focused experimentally on salmonids (especially salmon and trout), a group of high commercial and sport-fishing importance, but only a tiny phylogenetic corner of the animals that colloquially count as fish.
We also discuss the difficulty of evaluating decision quality in the context of child welfare, theoretical and practical implications, and lines for future research.
Observed patterns and trends in the literature are discussed, as well as promising lines of enquiry for further exploration of- and a reflection on experimenting for sustainability transitions in the context of the welfare state.
