Changing Welfare States
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 December 2012
- ISBN 9780199607600
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 229x174x25 mm
- Weight 750 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Changing Welfare States is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform trajectories and political destinations in an era of rapid economic, social, and political restructuring.
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Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform trajectories and political destinations in an era of rapid socioeconomic restructuring, including the critical impact of the global financial crisis on welfare state futures. The book argues that the overall scope of social reform across the member states of the European Union varies widely. In some cases welfare state change has been accompanied by deep social conflicts, while in other instances unpopular social reforms received broad consent from opposition parties, trade unions and employer organizations. The analysis reveals trajectories of welfare reform in many countries that are more proactive and reconstructive than is often argued in academic research and the media. Alongside retrenchments, there have been deliberate attempts - often given impetus by intensified European (economic) integration - to rebuild social programs and institutions and thereby accommodate welfare policy repertoires to the new economic and social realities of the 21st century. Welfare state change is work in progress, leading to patchwork mixes of old and new policies and institutions, on the lookout, perhaps, for greater coherence. Unsurprisingly, that search process remains incomplete, resulting from the institutionally bounded and contingent adaptation to the challenges of economic globalization, fiscal austerity, family and gender change, adverse demography, and changing political cleavages.
This is a solid, priceworthy overview of recent welfare state developments in the European Union. In other words, it is a recommendable textbook for courses on European social policy ... you will benefit from learning professor Hemerijck's knowledge about European social policies in the 1990s-2000s.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
The Adaptive Capacities of Welfare States
The New Politics of the Welfare State Revisited
Challenges to Twenty-First Century Social Policy Provision
Welfare Recalibration as Social Learning
Three Waves of Transformative Welfare State Change
Welfare Recalibration in Motion
Welfare Performance at a Glance
Escaping the Double Bind of Social Europe
Stress-Testing Welfare Regimes, Once Again
In Defence of Affordable Social Investment
Bibliography
Index
