The Uses of Social Investment
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 June 2017
- ISBN 9780198790495
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages500 pages
- Size 234x154x26 mm
- Weight 756 g
- Language English 0
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This volume provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment.
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The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment. It surveys the emergence, diffusion, limits, merits, and politics of social investment as the welfare policy paradigm for the 21st century, seen through the lens of the life-course contingencies of the competitive knowledge economy and modern family-hood.
Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the volume revisits the intellectual roots and normative foundations of social investment, surveys the criticisms that have leveled against the social investment perspective in theory and policy practice, and presents empirical evidence of social investment progress together with novel research methodologies for assessing socioeconomic 'rates of return' on social investment. Given the progressive, admittedly uneven, diffusion of the social investment policy priorities across the globe, the volume seeks to address the pressing political question as to whether the social investment turn is able to withstand the fiscal austerity backlash that has re-emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
[The book] is an open, honest debate about the difficulties of reforming the welfare state to deal with new risks posed by demographic and economic changes of the 21st century, and find a path between the two worse alternatives of knee-jerk austerity and the rising spectre of welfare chauvinism
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Introduction
Social Investment and its Critics
Part 2: Limits to Social Investment
Social Investment: the Thin Line Between Evidence Based Research and Political Advocacy
'Social Investment': With or Against Social Protection?
Family Relationships and Gender Equality in the Social Investment Discourse: A Too Reduced View?
Social Investment and the Matthew Effect: Limits to a Strategy
The 'New Welfare State' Under Fiscal Strain: Austerity Gridlocks and the Privatization of Risk
Part 3: Social Investment Endowment and Extensions
Enabling Social Policy
Social Investment and the Service Economy Trilemma
Towards Employment Insurance?
Social Investment and Childcare Expansion: A Perfect Match?
Addressing Human Capital Risks and the Role of Institutional Complementarities
Capacitating Services and the Bottom-Up Approach to Social Investment
A Normative Foundation for the Social Investment Approach?
Part 4: Social Investment Assessment: Conceptualization and Methods
Practical Pluralism in the Empirical Study of Social Investment: Examples from Active Labor Market Policy
Social Investment and its Discount Rate
Conceptualising and Measuring Social Investment
Measuring Social Investment Returns: Do Publicly Provided Services Enhance Social Inclusion?
Part 5: Comparative Social Investment Experience
Developing and Spreading a Social Investment Perspective: The World Bank and the OECD Compared
De-Universalization and Selective Social Investment in Scandinavia?
The Truncated German Social Investment Turn
The Impact of Social Investment Reforms on Income and Activation in the Netherlands
Ireland: the Evolving Tensions Between Austerity, Welfare Expansion and Targeted Social Investment
Social Investment in a Federal Welfare State: The Quebec Experience
A Social Investment Turn in East Asia? South Korea in Comparative Perspective
Social Investment in Latin America
Why No Social Investment in Italy: Timing, Austerity, and Macro-level Matthew Effects
Part 6: EU Social Investment Advocacy
Social Investment for a Cohesive and Competitive European Union
Can European Socio-Economic Governance be Social Investment Proof?
Social Investment as a Policy Platform: A European Argument
Accelerator or Brake? The EU and the Difficult Politics of Social Investment
Part 7: The Politics of Social Investment
The Politics of Social Investment: Policy Legacies and Class Coalitions
Three Challenges for the Social Investment Strategy: Investing in the Future, Taxes, and the Millennials
Public Opinion and the Politics of Social Investment
Social Investment, Social Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Xenophobia
Part 8: Conclusion
The Uses of Affordable Social Investment
