The politics of the new welfare state

The politics of the new welfare state / edited by Giuliano Bonoli and David Natali.

In this title, the main reforms in work and welfare are summarised and analysed to provide evidence of policy change and its main determinants to policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders interested in the field.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Natali, David
Other Authors: Bonoli, Giuliano
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Welfare state > European Union countries.
Welfare state > Economic aspects > European Union countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Politics and government
Social policy
Welfare state
Political Science.
Law, Politics & Government.
Political Theory of the State.
European Union countries > Social policy.
European Union countries > Politics and government.
European Economic Community countries > Social policy.
European Union countries
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Perspectives on the new welfare state
  • pt. 2. The theoretical underpinnings of the new welfare state
  • pt. 3. Trajectories of change
  • pt. 4. Continent-wide perspectives.
  • Introduction. The politics of the 'new' welfare states : analysing reforms in Western Europe / Giuliano Bonoli and David Natali
  • pt. I. Perspectives on the new welfare state. A new politics for the social investment perspective : objectives, instruments, and areas of intervention in welfare regimes / Jane Jenson
  • The governance of economic uncertainty : beyond the 'new social risks' analysis / Colin Crouch and Maarten Keune
  • Stress-testing the new welfare state / Anton Hemerijck
  • pt. II. The theoretical underpinnings of the new welfare state. Blame avoidance and credit claiming revisited / Giuliano Bonoli
  • The politics of old and new social policies / Silja Häusermann
  • pt. III. Trajectories of change. Adapting labour market policy to a transformed employment structure : the politics of 'triple integration' / Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg
  • Childcare politics in the 'new' welfare state : class, religion, and gender in the shaping of political agendas / Ingela Naumann
  • Europe's transformations towards a renewed pension system / Bernhard Ebbinghaus
  • Insider-outsider dynamics and the reform of job security legislation / Johan B. Davidsson and Patrick Emmenegger
  • pt. IV. Continent-wide perspectives. Turning vice into vice : how Bismarckian welfare states have gone from unsustainability to dualization / Bruno Palier
  • The new spatial politics of welfare in the EU / Maurizio Ferrera
  • Conclusion. Multidimensional transformations in the early 21st century welfare states / Giuliano Bonoli and David Natali.

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