The Politics of the New Welfare State

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-964525-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

Since the early 1990s, European welfare states have undergone substantial changes, in terms of objectives, areas of intervention, and instruments. Traditional programmes, such as old age pensions have been curtailed throughout the continent, while new functions have been taken up. At present, welfare states are expected to help non-working people back into employment, to complement work income for the working poor, to reconcile work and family life, to promote gender
equality, to support child development, and to provide social services for an ageing society. The welfare settlement that is emerging at the beginning of the 21st century is nonetheless very different in terms of functions and instruments from the one inherited from the last century. This book
seeks to offer a better understanding of the new welfare settlement, and to analyze the factors that have shaped the recent transformation.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of political science, especially those interested in the welfare state, social policy, public policy, and political economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bonoli, Giuliano

Natali, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Giuliano Bonoli, David Natali: The Politics of the 'New' Welfare States: Analysing Reforms in Western Europe
Part I: Perspectives on the New Welfare State
2: Jane Jenson: A New Politics for the Social Investment Perspective: Objectives, Instruments, and Areas of Intervention in Welfare Regimes
3: Colin Crouch, Maarten Keune: The Governance of Economic Uncertainty: Beyond the 'New Social Risks' Analysis
4: Anton Hemerijck: Stress-Testing the New Welfare State
PART II: The Theoretical Underpinnings of the New Welfare State
5: Giuliano Bonoli: Blame Avoidance and Credit Claiming Revisited
6: Silja Häusermann: The Politics of Old and New Social Policies
Part III: Trajectories of Change
7: Jochen Clasen, Daniel Clegg: Adapting Labour Market Policy to a Transformed Employment Structure: The Politics of 'Triple Integration'
8: Ingela Nauman: Childcare Politics in the 'New' Welfare State: Class, Religion and Gender in the Shaping of Political Agendas
9: Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Europe's Transformations Towards a Renewed Pension System
10: Johan Davidsson, Patrick Emmenegger: Insider-Outsider Dynamics and the Reform of Job Security Legislation
Part IV: Continent-Wide Perspectives
11: Bruno Palier: Turning Vice into Vice: How Bismarckian Welfare States Have Gone from Unsustainability to Dualisation
12: Maurizio Ferrera: The New Spatial Politics of Welfare in the EU
Conclusion
13: Giuliano Bonoli, David Natali: Multidimensional Transformations in the Early 21st Century Welfare States

Über Autor(innen)

Bonoli, Giuliano
Giuliano Bonoli holds a PhD from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK), obtained in 1998 for a study on pension reforms in Europe. Before taking up his Chair at IDHEAP in 2005, he worked for various Universities in the UK and in Switzerland, including the University of Kent at Canterbury, the University of Bath, and the University of Fribourg. He is Professor of Social Policy at the Swiss graduate school of public administration (IDHEAP).

Natali, David
David Natali's work deals with the comparative analysis of social protection reforms across Europe, on the role of the European Union in the field of social protection. In 2002, he obtained a Phd in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute of Florence. He is member of the OECD Working Party on pension markets. He is also member of the European board of ESPAnet (European Network of Social Policy Analysis). He is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, R. Ruffilli Faculty of Political Science in Forli.