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234x156mm
978-0-19-960759-4
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29 November 2012
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- Comprehensive assessment of welfare state performance
- Considers the future of the European welfare state in the wake of the financial crisis
- Aids understanding of the key challenges of contemporary welfare state provision
Changing Welfare States 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 impact of the global financial crisis on welfare state futures. 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 retrenchments, there have been deliberate attempts - often given impetus by intensified European (economic) integration - to rebuild social programs and institutions and thereby accommodate welfare policy repertoires to the new economic and social realities of the 21st century. 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 the
challenges of economic globalization, fiscal austerity, family and gender change, adverse demography, and changing political cleavages.Readership: Scholars and students of political science, the welfare state, social policy, and political economy.
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Anton Hemerijck, Dean, Faculty of the Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam Anton Hemerijck was director of the Netherlands Council for Government Policy (WRR) between 2001 and 2009. In that period he also held a Chair in Comparative European Social Policy, Department of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He studied economics at Tilburg University (1979-1986). He obtained his doctorate from Oxford University in 1993. He publishes widely on issues comparative social and economic policy and institutional policy analysis. Between 1997 and 2000 he was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the study of societies, working on the large comparative project on welfare and
work in the open economy, directed by Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt. He is the Dean of The Faculty of the Social Sciences, Professor of Institutional Policy Analysis and Vice-Rector of International Affairs at VU University, Amsterdam.
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"Hemerijck outlines a "Social Investment Pact" and Social Union wherein national welfare states are re-embedded at the European level and integrated with EU-markets. The European social space he describes is one that could accommodate large-scale trans-European investment of the sort needed to save major parts of Europe from becoming entrapped in a permanent economic depression. We can opt for a caring Europe or an unraveling Europe, and Hemerijck's well-researched book makes the choice clear." - Stephan Leibfried, Professor of Political Science, University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen. "Anton Hemerijck's Changing Welfare States is a tour de force. Ranging broadly across countries, time periods, and policy areas, the
book provides an overview of where we have been and where we might fruitfully go in terms of welfare state policy. The theoretical framework he advances deftly combines the best of institutional accounts and policy learning models into a realistic view of the possibilities of politics within evolving institutional constraints. Essential reading for scholars and policy makers alike." - Kathleen Thelen, Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT
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List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
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
Bibliography
Index
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