Governing the Welfare Commons
On Europe's Social Investment Turn
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 June 2026
- ISBN 9780198971450
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 241x161x29 mm
- Weight 841 g
- Language English 695
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Short description:
Governing the Welfare Commons offers a comprehensive analysis of the policy transformation across Europe's diverse welfare states since 2000 and advances an explanation of the political drivers of reform to reflect where Europe's welfare states require further action to match fiscal sustainability with inclusive growth.
MoreLong description:
European welfare states are comprehensive, fostering solidarity across generations, promoting income redistribution, balancing gendered labour market and life course transitions, whilst providing safeguards against economic shocks. In an era of rapid socioeconomic restructuring, policymakers face constant pressures to reform their welfare systems in response to evolving fiscal, political, social and demographic realities. The welfare state debate has shifted from the question of 'how much?' welfare can be afforded to the question of 'what kind?' of welfare mix should be supported, away from big spending programmes towards more service-oriented support structures.
Governing the Welfare Commons offers a comprehensive analysis of the policy transformation across Europe's diverse welfare states since 2000. It examines the manner, timing, and extent to which ongoing welfare transformations are heading into the direction of social investment and explores key developments in social policy, including family policies, labour market reforms, and pensions. To explain the shift, the book employs the welfare commons logic as a conceptual framework to capture the dynamic evolution of Europe's welfare systems. It also considers the facilitating role of the European Union in domestic reform processes, Social Europe, and welfare performance over time.
With case studies covering 10 European countries, Governing the Welfare Commons captures the dynamic evolution of Europe's diverse welfare systems and advances an explanation of the political drivers of reform to reflect where Europe's welfare states require further action to match fiscal sustainability with inclusive growth.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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Table of Contents:
Introduction: Social Investment as a Reform Compass
The Politics of the Welfare Commons
The European Union and Social Investment: From Intellectual Diffusion to Institutional Consolidation
Welfare Performance in a Life-Course Perspective for the Twenty-First Century
Riding Social Investment Waves: Partisan Agreements in Spain's Unstable Economic Currents
Rebalancing the Intergenerational Contract: Obstacles and Silver Linings on Italy's Road to Social Investment
Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Pains: French Dirigisme and the Social Investment State
Successful Social Investment or Workfare Turn?: An Analysis of Stock, Flow, and Buffer Reforms in the German Welfare State
Economic Growth as a Driver of Social Investment Recalibration?: The Curious Case of Welfare State Change in Poland
Latvia: Welfare Reform in the Context of EU Accession and Emigration of the Working-Age Population
From Promise to Paradox: The Hit-and-Miss Social Investment Trajectory of the Dutch Welfare State
Social Investment in Ireland?: Piecemeal Reform and the Weak Beneficial Constraint
Balancing Acts: Renegotiating the Social Investment Contract in Finland
Disembedding the Swedish Model?: Social Investment-Related Reforms in the Early Twenty-First Century
Europe's Convergent, Yet Reluctant, Social Investment Turn
