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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
Edited by Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson
912 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-957939-6
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Hardback
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15 July 2010
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- Authoritative and comprehensive analysis of a key component of the modern state
- Written by some of the leading experts in the world
- Accessible, yet cutting edge
- Analysis from all the key disciplines
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state>'s history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our
current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions
about the global future of the welfare state.
The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.Readership: Scholars and students of political science, social policy, and political economy.
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Edited by Francis G. Castles, Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, Stephan Leibfried, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Bremen, Jane Lewis, Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Herbert Obinger, Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy at the University of Bremen, and Christopher Pierson, Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham Contributors:
Willem Adema is Head of the Asian Social and Health Outreach at the OECD in Paris.
Edwin Amenta is Professor of Sociology at
the University of California, Irvine.
Klaus Armingeon is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bern and Director of the Institute of Political Science (IPW).
Wilhelm A. Arts is Professor of Modern Sociology at University College Utrecht and Professor Emeritus of General and Theoretical Sociology at Tilburg University.
Thomas Bahle is a Researcher at the Department of European Societies and their Integration at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).
Juan Ariel Bogliaccini is a doctoral student at the Political Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jonathan Bradshaw is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York and Member of the Research Committee of the International
Social Security Association (ISSA).
Marius R. Busemeyer is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
Eero Carroll is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.
Francis G. Castles is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and at the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) in Bremen.
Stephen Castles is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney and Associate Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford.
Linda J. Cook is Professor of Political Science at
Brown University.
Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University Belfast.
Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).
Tony Fahey is Professor of Social Policy and Head of the School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin.
Gerda Falkner is Director of the Institute for European Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Political Science and President of the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Studies of the State University of Milan.
Richard Freeman teaches theory and method in the Graduate
School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.
John Gelissen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University.
Howard Glennerster is Professor Emeritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics and Co-Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE).
Ian Gough is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath.
Alexander M. Hicks is Winship Distinguished Research Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Karl Hinrichs is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy Research (CeS) at the University of Bremen and Professor of Political Science at the Humboldt University Berlin.
Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Professor of Political
Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina.
Ellen M. Immergut is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Humboldt University Berlin.
Torben Iversen is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.
Olli Kangas is Head of the Research Department of the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela).
Franz-Xaver Kaufmann is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bielefeld.
Mikko Kauto is Head of the Research Department at the Finnish Centre for Pensions.
Lane Kenworthy is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona.
Desmond King is the Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government and Professorial
Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.
Martin Kohli is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute in Florence.
Stein Kuhnle is Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the Hertie School of Governance I Berlin.
Stephan Leibfried is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Bremen, Director of the Collaborative Research Center <"Transformations of the State>" (TranState) and member of the Unit History and Institutions of the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) there.
Matthieu Leimgruber is Lecturer at the University of Geneva and a Research Fellow at the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Jonah Levy is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jane
Lewis is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics.
Julia F. Lynch is Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Philip Manow is Professor of Political Science (Modern Political Theory) at the University of Heidelberg.
Isabela Mares is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.
Rita Nikolai is Head of the Junior Research Group <"Education and Transitions into the Labour Market<" (funded by the Federal Department of Education and Research) at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).
Michelle Norris is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin.
Frank Nullmeier is Professor of
Political Science at the University of Bremen, Principle Investigator at the Collaborative Research Center <"Transformations of the State>" (TranState), and Director of the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS), heading its Unit Theory and Constitution of the Welfare State.
Herbert Obinger is Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy at the University of Bremen, directs the Unit History and Institutions of the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) and directs two projects in the Collaborative Research Center <"Transformations of the State>" (TranState).
Ann Shola Orloff is Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Political Science at Northwestern University.
August Österle is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Policy at the Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration.
Einar Øverbye is Professor of International Social and Health Policy at the Oslo University College.
Bruno Palier is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF).
Joakim Palme is Director of the Institute for Future Studies, Sweden.
Ito Peng is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto.
Michaela Pfeifer is a Researcher at the Department of European Societies and their Integration at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).
Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham.
Mark Priestley is Professor of
Disability Policy at the University of Leeds.
Fiona Ross is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of Bristol.
Heinz Rothgang is Head of the Unit Health Economics, Health Policy and Outcomes Research at the Centre for Social Policy Research (CeS) at the University of Bremen and Principle Investigator at the Collaborative Research Center <"Transformations of the State>" (TranState).
Anne Sander is a Research Associate at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
Peter Saunders is Australian Professorial Fellow and Scienta Professor of Social Policy in the Social Policy Research Centre of the University of New South Wales.
Carl-Ulrik Schierup is Professor and Director of the Institute for Research on Migration,
Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University.
Manfred G. Schmidt is Professor of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg.
Ola Sjöberg is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute of Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.
John D. Stephens is the Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina.
Stefan Svallfors is Professor of Sociology at Umeå University.
Duane Swank is Professor of Political Science at the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Göran Therborn is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the
University of Cambridge.
Kees van Kersbergen is Professor of Political Science at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam.
Uwe Wagschal is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Claus Wendt is Project Director at the Department of European Societies and their Integration at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).
Stuart White is Director of the Public Policy Unit, University Lecturer in Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Jesus College at the University of Oxford.
Peter Whiteford is Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and a former OECD officer.
Joseph Wong is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University
of Toronto and the Canada Research Chair in Political Science.
Jan Zutavern is a Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
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"Students new to transnational comparative social policy focusing on the rich societies of the West will find it invaluable. The Handbook will also, of course, be useful for teachers and researchers, in mapping out contemporary themes and issues." - Critical Social Policy "This landmark book achieves its aspiration to provide the "most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published"... It transcends Christopher Pierson's fine Beyond the Welfare State and should be part of the foundation collection in any college library. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above." - D.B Robertson, Choice July 2011 "This is a landmark book for international scholarship in
social policy. It has been compiled by some of the leading international scholars in the field and published, in some style, by Oxford University Pressall academics in the field should ensure that university libraries acquire copies of the book. It will prove to be an essential reference for all those studying social policy, as well as many in politics, public administration, sociology and other cognate subjectsMore generally, it is attention to detail, co-existing with breadth of vision and reach, which make this such an attractive book. The editors and their contributors are addressing most of the big questions that underpin the history of the welfare state and its future prospects, and they are doing this on an international scaleIf you are not passionate about social policy before
encountering this Handbook, then surely you will be once you have begun to delve into it." - Journal of Social Policy "The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, written by an impressive array of scholars, is the book to read to understand the welfare state in all its complexity, from philosophical foundations to methodological and substantive theories, from policies and processes to actors and institutions, and from established welfare states to emerging ones." - Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University "This is not a book for the faint-hearted, nor for those looking for welfare-state lite. Instead, this large coherent volume offers a rich array of talented authors applying diverse approaches
historical, philosophical, political, sociological, and economic to analysing and comparing welfare states around the world and to offering a powerful reassertion of their resilience and their importance in a modern economy." - Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science "This new Handbook of the Welfare State represents state-of-the-art scholarship on one of the most important institutions of our times. The book brings together the world's leading authorities from many disciplines and provides an exhaustive and yet easily accessible treatment of the complete range of issues relevant for understanding welfare states. The volume has simply no rival, be it in terms of intellectual breath or scholarly quality — a
truly impressive addition to OUP's fantastic Handbook series.
" - Gøqsta Esping-Andersen
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List of Tables and Figures
About the Contributors
Stephan Leibfried: Preface
Stephan Leibfried: A Note on the Jacket Illustration
1: Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson: Introduction
Part I Philosophical Justifications and Critiques of the Welfare State
2: Stuart White: Ethics
3: Christopher Pierson and Matthieu Leimgruber: Intellectual Roots
4: Desmond King & Fiona Ross: Critics and Beyond
Part II History
5: Stein Kuhnle & Anne Sander: The Emergence of the Western Welfare State
6: Frank Nullmeier & Frank-Xaver Kaufmann: Post-War Welfare State Development
Part III Approaches
7: Edwin Amenta & Alexander Hicks: Research Methods
8: Willem Adema & Peter Whiteford: Public and Private Social Welfare
9: Mary Daly: Families versus State and Market
10: Einar Øverbye: Disciplinary Perspectives
Part IV Inputs and Actors
11: Jan Zutavern & Martin Kohli: Needs and Risks
12: Torben Iversen: Democracy and Capitalism
13: Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Unions and Employers
14: Manfred G. Schmidt: Parties
15: Ellen M. Immergut: Political Institutions
16: Stefan Svallfors: Public Attitudes
17: Ann Shola Orloff: Gender
18: Kees van Kersbergen & Philip Manow: Religion
19: Stephen Castles & Carl-Ulrik Schierup: Migration and Ethnic Minorities
20: Gerda Falkner: European Union
21: Klaus Armingeon: Intergovernmental Organizations
22: Duane Swank: Globalization
Part V Policies
23: Herbert Obinger & Uwe Wagschal: Social Expenditure and Revenues
24: Karl Hinrichs & Julia Lynch: Old-Age Pensions
25: Richard Freeman & Heinz Rothgang: Health
26: August Oesterle & Heinz Rothgang: Long-term Care
27: Olli Kangas: Work Accident and Sickness Benefits
28: Mark Priestley: Disability
29: Joakim Palme, Eero Carroll & Ola Sjöberg: Unemployment Insurance
30: Lane Kenworthy: Labour Market Activation
31: Thomas Bahle, Michaela Pfeifer & Claus Wendt: Social Assistance
32: Jonathan Bradshaw & Naomi Finch: Family Benefits and Services
33: Tony Fahey & Michelle Norris: Housing
34: Marius R. Busemeyer & Rita Nikolai: Education
Part VI Policy Outcomes
35: John Stephens: Social Rights of Citizenship
36: Peter Saunders: Inequality and Poverty
37: Isabela Mares: Macroeconomic Outcomes
38: Jonah Levy: Welfare Retrenchment
Part VII Worlds of Welfare
39: Wilhelm A. Arts & John Gelissen: Models of the Welfare State
Established Welfare States
40: Mikko Kautto: The Nordic Countries
41: Bruno Palier: Continental Western Europe
42: Maurizio Ferrera: The South European Countries
43: Francis G. Castles: The English-speaking Countries
Emerging Welfare States
44: Evelyne Huber & Juan Bogliaccini: Latin America
45: Ito Peng & Joseph Wong: East Asia
46: Linda. J. Cook: Eastern Europe and Russia
Part VIII Prospects
47: Howard Glennerster: The Sustainability of Western Welfare States
48: Ian Gough & Goran Therborn: The Global Future of Welfare States
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The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
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