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New Risks, New Welfare - The Transformation of the European Welfare State (Hardcover, New)
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New Risks, New Welfare - The Transformation of the European Welfare State (Hardcover, New)
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This book introduces the concept of new social risks in welfare
state studies and explains their relevance to the comparative
understanding of social policy in Europe. New social risks arise
from shifts in the balance of work and family life as a direct
result of the declining importance of the male breadwinner family,
changes in the labor market, and the impact of globalization on
national policy-making. They differ from the old social risks of
the standard industrial life-course, which were concerned primarily
with interruptions to income from sickness, unemployment,
retirement, and similar issues. New social risks pose new
challenges for the welfare policies of European countries, such as
the care of children and the elderly, more equal opportunities, the
activation of labor markets and the management of needs that arise
from welfare state reform, and new opportunities for the
coordination of policies at the EU level.
The book includes detailed and up-to-date case studies of policy
development across these areas in the major European countries.
These studies, written by leading experts, are organized in a
comparative framework which is followed throughout the book. They
highlight the way in which national welfare state regimes and
institutional arrangements shape policy-making to meet new social
risks.
A major feature of this volume is the analysis of developments at
the EU level and their interaction with national policies. The EU
has been largely unsuccessful in its interventions in old social
risk policy, but appears to have more success in its attempts to
coordinate policy for new social risks. Experience here may provide
lessons for future developments in EU policy-making.
The comparative framework of the book seeks to inform an
understanding of the development of new social risks in Europe and
of the particular political opportunities and challenges that
result. It provides an original analysis of pressing issues at the
forefront of European welfare policy debate and locates it at the
heart of current theoretical debates.
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