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Ideas and welfare state reform in Western Europe / edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby
Bib ID 3585955
Format BookBook
Description New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 
xv, 179 p. ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 1403993173  9781403993175 (hbk.) : 
Summary

"The welfare state is a distinctively European invention, central to the success of Europe in balancing competitive capitalism with social inclusion. Social policies across Europe are now being transformed to meet the demands of globalisation, population ageing, changing labour markets and the new economic pressures from the European open market. This book analyses the ideas that lie behind the new policies. Based on more than two hundred and fifty interviews with senior politicians, civil servants, representatives of business and unions and other key policy actors in seven European countries and at the EU level, it explores how far a market-centred paradigm lies at the heart of the reforms and offers insights into the essential resilience of the European welfare state."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents
  • 1. Ideas and policy change / Peter Taylor-Gooby
  • 2. Paradigm shifts, power resources and labour market reform / Peter Taylor-Gooby
  • 3. Policy paradigms and long-term care : convergence or continuing difference? / Virpi Timonen
  • 4. The myth of an adult worker society : new policy discourses in European welfare states / Trine P. Larsen
  • 5. Changing ideas on pensions : accounting for differences in the spread of the multipillar paradigm in five EU social insurance countries / Frank Bonker
  • 6. Towards activation? : social assistance reforms and discourses / Andreas Aust and Ana Arriba
  • 7. Current employment policy paradigms in the UK, Sweden and Germany / Johannes Kananen
  • 8. The Europeanisation of welfare : paradigm shifts and social policy reforms / Luis Moreno and Bruno Palier.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Public welfare - Europe.  |  Welfare state - Europe.  |  Europe - Social policy.
Other authors/contributors Taylor-Gooby, Peter

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