Rules of Relief

Institutions of Social Security, and Their Impact
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-90-377-0218-7
Verlag: Sociall en Cultureel Planbureau

Buch, Englisch, 542 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: Netherlands Institute for Social Research

This study is concerned with the collective consequences of social rules. The theoretical analyses take as a starting point the notion of 'new institutionalism' in the social sciences. The analyses focus on the nature and societal role of institutions, and more specifically social security institutions: the 'rules of relief' that are constructed by the community. Among other things, those institutions lay down the benefit entitlements that people enjoy and the duties that have to be fulfilled in order to enjoy them. The empirical analyses explore some of the effects of modern social security institutions. The central question is which collective outcomes are generated by the social security rules in 11 countries. The analyses first investigate whether the institutions differ from each other to such an extent that the national systems can in practice be said to represent three different types of social security: the liberal, the corporatist and the social-democratic model.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vrooman, J.C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 2 Institutional theory 2.1 Institutions and the ‘new institutionalism’ 2.2 North’s economic-historical approach 2.3 The evolvement and impact of institutions: a figural model 2.4 Institutions as socially constructed rules 2.5 Types of institution 2.6 Institutional hierarchy 2.7 Actors, their relationships and their motivations 2.8 Rule-driven interactions 2.9 The rule generation process: creation and development of institutions 2.10 Conclusions 3 Social security and the institutional approach 3.1 Traditional definitions of social security 3.2 Social security in an institutional sense 3.3 Institutions and actors in social security 3.4 Undersocialised social security 3.5 Models of rule-driven social security interactions 3.6 The results of social security rules 3.7 Institutional change: from informal to formal systems 3.8 Conclusions 4 Regimes of social security 4.1 Theoretical traits of social security regimes 4.2 An empirical typology 4.3 The generality of regime types 4.4 Conclusions 5 Benefit dependency 5.1 Regimes and benefit dependency: theoretical expectations 5.2 Measuring benefit dependency 5.3 The development of benefit dependency 5.4 A causal model for benefit dependency growth 5.5 Country-specific models 5.6 Conclusions 6 Poverty 6.1 The theoretical poverty debate in political philosophy: some key elements 6.2 The meaning of poverty 6.3 Granting rights to the poor 6.4 Operational poverty lines 6.5 A generalised budget approach 6.6 The theoretical relationship between regime types and poverty 6.7 Empirical results 6.8 Conclusions 7 The collective significance of social security institutions 7.1 Institutions and social security 7.2 Regimes, benefit dependency and poverty 7.3 The impact of social security regimes 7.4 Some implications.

Über Autor(innen)

J. C. Vrooman is Head of the Labour and Public Services research sector at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research and holds the Endowed Chair in Social Security and Participation at Utrecht University.