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Oxford University Press
Changing Welfare States
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Oxford University Press
Oprawa: Miękka
Opis
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. Hemerijck outlines a "Social Investment Pact" and Social Union wherein national welfare states are re-embedded at the European level and integrated with EU-markets. The European social space he describes is one that could accommodate large-scale trans-European investment of the sort needed to save major parts of Europe from becoming entrapped in a permanent economic depression. We can opt for a caring Europe or an unraveling Europe, and Hemerijck's well-researched book makes the choice clear. Stephan Leibfried, Professor of Political Science, University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen Anton Hemerijck's Changing Welfare States is a tour de force. Ranging broadly across countries, time periods, and policy areas, the book provides an overview of where we have been and where we might fruitfully go in terms of welfare state policy. The theoretical framework he advances deftly combines the best of institutional accounts and policy learning models into a realistic view of the possibilities of politics within evolving institutional constraints. Essential reading for scholars and policy makers alike. Kathleen Thelen, Ford Professor of Political Science, MITList of Figures ; List of Tables ; List of Abbreviations ; 1. The Adaptive Capacities of Welfare States ; 2. The New Politics of the Welfare State Revisited ; 3. Challenges to Twenty-First Century Social Policy Provision ; 4. Welfare Recalibration as Social Learning ; 5. Three Waves of Transformative Welfare State Change ; 6. Welfare Recalibration in Motion ; 7. Welfare Performance at a Glance ; 8. Escaping the Double Bind of Social Europe ; 9. Stress-Testing Welfare Regimes, Once Again ; 10. In Defence of Affordable Social Investment ; Bibliography ; Index
Szczegóły
Rok wydania
2012
Oprawa
Miękka
Ilość stron
480
ISBN
9780199607600
EAN
9780199607600
Kraj produkcji
PL
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