Changing Welfare States 1st Edition by Anton Hemerijck ISBN 978-0199607600 0199607605

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ISBN 10:  0199607605

ISBN 13:  978-0199607600

Author: Anton Hemerijck

Changing Welfare States is 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 economic, social, and political restructuring, including the critically important dimension of European integration. The book argues that the overall scope of social reform across the member states of the European Union varies widely. In some cases welfare state change has been accompanied by deep social conflicts, while in other instances unpopular social reforms received broad consent from opposition parties, trade unions and employer organizations. The analysis reveals trajectories of welfare reform in many countries that are more proactive and reconstructive than is often argued in academic research and the media. Alongside welfare retrenchments, there have been deliberate attempts to rebuild social programs and institutions to accommodate policy repertoires to the new economic and social realities of the 21st century in many advanced European welfare states. Welfare state change is work in progress, leading to patchwork mixes of old and new policies and institutions, on the lookout, perhaps, for greater coherence. Unsurprisingly, that search process remains incomplete, resulting from the institutionally bounded and contingent adaptation to new social realities.

Table of contents: 

1:The Adaptive Capacities of Welfare States
2:The New 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

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