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Changing Welfare States (Hardcover)
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Changing Welfare States (Hardcover)
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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.
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