Changing welfare states /

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform trajectories and political destinations in an era of rapid socioeconomic restructuring, including the critical impac...

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Main Author: Hemerijck, A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford Univ Press, ©2013.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Adaptive Capacities of Welfare States
  • 2. The Ǹew Politics' of the Welfare State Revisited
  • 3. Challenges to Twenty-First Century Social Policy Provision
  • 4. Welfare Recalibration as Social Learning
  • 5. Three Waves of Transformative Welfare State Change.
  • 6. Welfare Recalibration in Motion
  • 7. Welfare Performance at a Glance
  • 8. Escaping the Double Bind of Social Europe
  • 9. Stress-Testing Welfare Regimes, Once Again
  • 10. In Defence of Affordable Social Investment.