After Austerity
Welfare State Transformation in Europe after the Great Recession
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 August 2017
- ISBN 9780198790266
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages244 pages
- Size 241x168x21 mm
- Weight 534 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines European welfare states, how and why they are changing, and how they are likely to develop.
MoreLong description:
European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately, the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented levels of immigration have imposed additional pressures. This book examines welfare state transformations across a representative range of European countries and at the EU level, and considers likely new directions in social policy. It reviews the dominant neo-liberal austerity response and discusses social investment, fightback, welfare chauvinism, and protectionism.
It argues that the class solidarities and cleavages that shaped the development of welfare states are no longer powerful. Tensions surrounding divisions between old and young, women and men, immigrants and denizens, and between the winners in a new, more competitive, world and those who feel left behind are becoming steadily more important. European countries have entered a period of political instability and this is reflected in policy directions. Austerity predominates nearly everywhere, but patterns of social investment, protectionism, neo-Keynesian intervention, and fightback vary between countries. The volume identify areas of convergence and difference in European welfare state futures in this up-to-date study - essential reading to grasp the pace and directions of change.
the edited volume is a compelling account of the subject. Its theoretical framework is deployed consistently and coherently throughout the book, the chapters are strongly anchored by a historical account, are analytically consistent and provide diverse case-studies and levels of analysis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Stretching the Limits of Solidarity: The German Case
Where Next for the UK Welfare State?
France at a Crossroads: Societal Challenges to the Welfare State under Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande's Presidential Terms
Changing Scandinavian Welfare States - Which Way Forward?
The Future of the Slovenian Welfare State and Challenges to Solidarity
Spain and Italy: Regaining the Confidence and Legitimacy to Advance Social Policy
Welfare Reform in Greece: A Major Crisis, Crippling Debt Conditions, and Stark Challenges Ahead
The Europeanisation of the Welfare State: The Case for a 'Differentiated European Social Model'
Liberalism, Social Investment, Protectionism, and Chauvinism: New Directions for the European Welfare State
