Il piano Beveridge nell’Italia fascista. Una ricostruzione storica per nuove prospettive di ricerca

After outlining the main elements of the Beveridge Plan and emphasizing the epochal significance of the freedom from want principle, the essay highlights the sharp fascist criticism of the British projects. This reaction focuses not only on the plan’s anti-revolutionary nature and the leadership that Fascism claimed in comprehensive social policies but also on the universalism of the Beveridge scheme. The latter criticism may have contributed to the persistent particularism of the Italian welfare model.