Welfare state and welfare society
In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 22, Heft Dec 88
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
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In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 22, Heft Dec 88
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 287-296
ISSN: 0017-257X
The welfare state in the UK & elsewhere is currently caught up in a number of crises. The slowing of economic growth has reduced the resources available for its support & has consequently exposed it to theoretical challenges. In particular, it has been criticized as seeking to fulfill needs that are in fact illimitable. In addition, market & liberation theorists have suggested that the welfare state is hostile to individual autonomy & responsibility, & serves the interests of welfare professionals more than those of the poor. It appears, however, that fundamental changes in policy are less likely than incremental readjustments. The issues raised by this crisis concern the basic nature of the relation of society to state, & of both to the individual. W. H. Stoddard
In: Routledge studies in the political economy of the welfare state
"This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014. Using a variety of welfare state types in Europe, the authors have systematically investigated core questions that have preoccupied the welfare state literature at least since the 1990s. These include, the extent of path dependency in mature welfare states, the usage of so-called "invisible" policy instruments for hiding cutbacks, and the role of partisanship - on whether the ideological color of the incumbent affects policy - which have been analysed in depth by examining the new dataset presented in this book. This text will be of key interest scholars, students and practitioners studying, and working in, welfare and the welfare state, and more broadly to political science, sociology and social policy."
In: UK Higher Education OUP Humanities and Social Sciences Sociology Ser.
What was the impact of the Second World War on the development of the welfare state? Did Attlee's pioneering post-war Labour governments create the welfare state and a socialist society? This title provides an account of the British welfare state after 1940. It re-examines commonly held assumptions about the post-war welfare state.
In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 222-234
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
In: Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate institutions have learned from their bad performances, modified their structures and style of operation, and assumed responsibility for welfare state reform. Consensual bargaining is back on the agenda of both policy makers and of social science. This topical volume with its internationally respected panel of contributors will appeal to all those interested in the welfare state and labour relations. It includes chapters focusing on the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland as well as a section looking at the role of corporatist concertation in the European Union.
In: Family life and social policy
In: Political studies review, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 456-457
ISSN: 1478-9302
In: Politique étrangère: PE ; revue trimestrielle publiée par l'Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Heft 3, S. 200-201
ISSN: 0032-342X
In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift: PVS : German political science quarterly, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 866-868
ISSN: 0032-3470
In: Citizenship in Contemporary Europe, S. 107-135