De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States

De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States PDF Author: Bent Greve
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110721821
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Book Description
Globalisation, regionalisation, new technology, demography, voters’ expectations and re-structuring of societies are expected to influence welfare state development for years to come. This handbook analyses how different welfare state models and regimes will be able to cope with contemporary and future challenges, providing a variety of evidence based tools that make it essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers alike.

De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States

De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States PDF Author: Bent Greve
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110721821
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Book Description
Globalisation, regionalisation, new technology, demography, voters’ expectations and re-structuring of societies are expected to influence welfare state development for years to come. This handbook analyses how different welfare state models and regimes will be able to cope with contemporary and future challenges, providing a variety of evidence based tools that make it essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers alike.

De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States

De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States PDF Author: Bent Greve
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110721767
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Book Description
Globalisation, regionalisation, new technology, demography, voters’ expectations and re-structuring of societies are expected to influence welfare state development for years to come. This handbook analyses how different welfare state models and regimes will be able to cope with contemporary and future challenges, providing a variety of evidence based tools that make it essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers alike.

Multidimensional Inequalities

Multidimensional Inequalities PDF Author: Bent Greve
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783110720181
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Inhalt -- List of the tables and figures -- 1 Why a book on inequality? -- 2 Theoretical understanding and measurement of equality and inequality -- 3 Equalities in opportunities: Sen's perspective on justice, equality, and inequality -- 4 Economic inequality -- 5 Gender inequality -- 6 Inequality in health and health care -- 7 Inequality in educational attainment -- 8 Inequalities in the labour market -- 9 Ethnic inequality? -- 10 Democratic inequality and happiness inequality and their impact on social cohesion -- 11 Does the welfare state contribute to changes in the degree of inequality? -- 12 What can welfare states do to reduce inequality? -- 13 Concluding reflections -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State PDF Author: Francis G. Castles
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191628298
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 907

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Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.

Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy

Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy PDF Author: Bent Greve
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1035306492
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Book Description
Research in social policy has been greatly influenced by the emergence of modern political economy in the late 1970s. The Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy offers a systematic, yet comprehensive, framework for understanding how concepts, theoretical standpoints and methodological approaches stemming from political economy have been applied to the study of social policies, and models of welfare provision. The authors also signpost current developments and discuss their likely impact on future research.

Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies

Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies PDF Author: Daniel Clegg
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 180088088X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567

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Book Description
Bringing together contributions from leading labour market policy scholars from across the globe, this state-of-the-art Handbook offers extensive and compelling analyses of labour market policy in advanced democracies. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State PDF Author: Bent Greve
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415682924
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Book Description
The welfare state in all its many forms has had a profound role in many countries around the world since at least the Second World War. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State explores the classical issues around the welfare state, but also investigates its key concepts, along with how these can be used and analysed. This book provides expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The book combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive picture of what 'the welfare state' means around the world. In the midst of the credit crunch, this book addresses some of the many questions about the welfare state. This book is suitable for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, international relations, politics, and gender studies.

The Fate of Social Modernity

The Fate of Social Modernity PDF Author: Ingo Bode
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1035331225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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Book Description
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This thoroughly original book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of welfare arrangements and their wider context in Western Europe. Using the concept of social modernity, Ingo Bode investigates current challenges to these arrangements and examines prospects for progressive welfare reform.

Party System Changes and Challenges to Democracy

Party System Changes and Challenges to Democracy PDF Author: Danica Fink-Hafner
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303154949X
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Book Description
This open access book focuses on the nexus between “party system stability” and “democratic consolidation”, using Slovenia as a case study. Its findings are presented from a comparative perspective to illustrate the commonalities and differences found in research on Central European post-socialist countries and former Yugoslav countries. On the one hand, Slovenia’s characteristics (including the characteristics of its transition to democracy) are far more similar to those of Central European post-socialist countries than Western Balkan countries. On the other, Slovenia shares some similarities with other parts of the former Yugoslavia – especially its experiences with the political system of socialist self-management, elements of a market economy under socialism, and war following the end of socialism (albeit the conflict in Slovenia was very short and rather mild in comparison to those in other parts of socialist Yugoslavia). Slovenia’s experiences with rapid but limited democratic backsliding under the Janša government (March 2019–June 2022) were halted by the 2022 national election – in contrast to the more widely known cases of Hungary and Poland, where such backsliding took place incrementally over a longer period of time that included several election cycles. Danica Fink-Hafner is Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Normative Intermittency

Normative Intermittency PDF Author: Gregor Fitzi
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031061748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
This book addresses the manifold crisis of current societies and understands it as a failure of normative social structuration. As an exemplar for this development, it analyses the decline of welfare state models and the corresponding societal compromise. Yet, it evaluates them as a symptom of a wider malaise of normative orders in complex societies. The question thus arises as to how social science can study the ongoing societal transformation. The book frames the phenomenon as ‘normative intermittency’ to capture its fluid alternation of social structuration and destructuration and develops its analysis in three steps: first, it draws a theoretically reflected symptomatic of its occurrences; it then establishes the sociological diagnosis necessary to understand its unfolding and finally evaluates its political outcomes. Methodologically, the book advocates a complete overhaul of the analytical frames of sociology to gauge the intermittent rhythm of the ongoing societal transformation. Thus, it develops an innovative reading of classical sociological theory beyond a number of unreflected axiomatic assumptions of the current sociological mainstream. Thanks to the assessment of the political outcomes of failing social structuration the book turns to a discussion of the development of possible emancipation paths in the form of ‘transformative social action’; reflexively, this accounts for the results of the sociological diagnosis of the crisis of normative social orders. The main analyses within the book scrutinise a number of empirical phenomena that establish normative intermittency in current societies and refer to the major debates that are taking place on the related topics in the state of art of sociological and political theory.