Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States

2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-26718-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4925 g

The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment, entrepreneurship, immigration, single parenthood, education and health.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harsløf, I.

Ulmestig, R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States; Ivan Harsløf and Rickard Ulmestig 2. Changing Population Profiles and Social Risk Structures in the Nordic countries; Ivan Harsløf, Simone Scarpa and Synøve Nygaard Andersen 3. Welfare State Support of Lone Parents: Nordic Approaches to a Complex and Ambiguous Policy Field; Mia Hakovirta, Susan Kuivalainen and Minna Rantalaiho 4. Working Time Policy Change and New Social Risks; Uffe Enokson 5. The Growing Emphasis on Education in the Nordic Social Citizenship: Inducing New Risks While Trying to Alleviate Them; Alexandru Panican 6. Structural Unemployment as a New Social Risk in the Nordic countries: A critical reassessment; Christian Albrekt Larsen 7. Fighting Risks with Risks: Self-Employment and New Social Risks in the Nordic Countries; Rickard Ulmestig 8. Health Capital: New Health Risks and Personal Investments in the Body in the Context of Changing Nordic Welfare States; Kristian Larsen, Malcolm Cutchin and Ivan Harsløf 9. Ethnification of New Social Risks: Programmes for Preparing Newly Arrived Immigrants for (Working) Life in Sweden, Denmark and Norway; Ariana Guilherme Fernandes 10. New Geographically-Differentiated Configurations of Social Risks: Labour Market Policy Developments in Sweden and Finland; Simone Scarpa 11. Liberal Responses to New Social Risks – Danish Experiences from Three Decades of Liberalistic Social Policy Reforms; Iver Hornemann Møller 12. Conclusion: The Take on New Social Risks in the Nordic Welfare States; Rickard Ulmestig and Ivan Harsløf

Über Autor(innen)

Synøve Nygaard Andersen, Statistics Norway, Norway
Malcolm P. Cutchin, University of North Carolina, US
Uffe Enokson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Ariana Guilherme Fernandes, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Mia Hakovirta, University of Turku, Finland
Susan Kuivalainen, National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki, Finland
Christian Albrekt Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Kristian Larsen, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway
Alexandru Panican, Lund University, Sweden
Minna Rantalaiho, Social Worker, Finland
Iver Hornemann Møller, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Simone Scarpa, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy