Beyond Welfare State Models - Transnational Historical Perspectives on Social Policy (Hardcover)

Welfare state models have for decades been the gold standard of welfare state research. Beyond Welfare State Models escapes the straitjacket of conventional welfare state models and challenges the existing literature in two ways. Firstly the contributors argue that the standard typologies have omitted important aspects of welfare state development. Secondly, the work develops and underlines the importance of a more fluid transnational conceptualisation. As this book shows, welfare states are not created in national isolation but are heavily influenced by transnational economic, political and cultural interdependencies. The authors illustrate these important points of criticism with their studies on the transnational history of social policy, religion and the welfare state, Nordic cooperation within the fields of social policy and marriage law, and the transnational contexts of national family policies. This fascinating work contributes to the understanding of the current changes of welfare states by discussing the relationship between globalized capitalism and social political regulations and by arguing that transnational transformations importantly take place within and between nation states.With its challenging and questioning approach, this cross-disciplinary book will appeal to social policy and welfare state researchers, academics and policy makers.

General

Imprint:	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Globalization and Welfare series
Release date:	February 2011
Editors:	Pauli Kettunen • Klaus Petersen
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-84844-569-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems
LSN:	1-84844-569-5
Barcode:	9781848445697

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