From the experience of social welfare state formation in the foreign countries

The article examines the legal regime of the social welfare state, its main characteristic features, taking into account how they are reflected in the legislation of a number of foreign countries. The work analyses the facts of the implementation of these features in practice. The provisions of the law of foreign countries and securing the two principles of the welfare state - a decent life and free development of the individual are analysed. The author investigates the possibility of solving the problem of the traditional approach to the definition of the social welfare state through the specific content of its features.