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Automation, digitalisation, the post-industrial transition and
climate change are creating new social risks which are not
adequately supported by established welfare state institutions. In
this timely book, Maurizio Ferrera, Joan Miró and Stefano Ronchi
propose critical social and institutional policy reform in response
to the nation state’s inability to maintain a balanced ecosystem
between democracy, the market economy, welfare and the rule of law.
Social Reformism 2.0 provides a diagnosis of the critical issues
facing the welfare state, namely the transition to
post-industrialisation, globalisation and European integration, and
the fourth technological revolution. Situating the European social
model within a multi-crisis context, this book surveys the current
reform trends in social policy, addressing decades of global
development, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the climate emergency,
before proposing a number of strategic policy reforms. It
ultimately champions a transition towards a greener economy and a
realignment of progressive politics, highlighting the central role
Europe plays in coordinating and stimulating change. Offering a
highly detailed yet accessible critique, this socially pertinent
study will strongly appeal to students and academics with an
interest in political science, European studies, sociology, social
and public policy analysis and welfare state research. It will also
highly benefit policymakers, bureaucrats, practitioners and
stakeholders involved in social governance processes at a national
and European level.
This new study delivers a detailed analysis of the efforts being
made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain,
Italy and Greece. After an initial discussion of the 'southern
model' of the welfare state, the situation of each country is
clearly illustrated. This book also discusses how the experience of
southern Europe might bear upon the situation of the East European
accession countries. This is excellent reading for those interested
in social change across Europe and beyond.
"Welfare State Reform in Southern Europe "analyses policies against
poverty and social exclusion in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece
in the wider framework of welfare state reform in these countries,
focusing especially on developments since the 1990s.
The specific focus is on innovations, experiments and debates
relating to the guarantee of a minimum income to individuals and
households lacking sufficient resources. The chapters on Italy,
Spain, Portugal and Greece are organized around a common structure
and include discussion of:
*Welfare state development in an historical perspective
*Poverty trends and anti-poverty policies
*Debates and initiatives in the field of minimum income.
The book includes a comparative introduction, which highlights the
features of South European welfare states and an additional chapter
illustrates developments occurring in the countries of Eastern and
South Eastern Europe, discussing to what extent the experience of
Southern Europe can be a useful point of reference for these
countries.
This book will interest students and researchers in the field of
welfare states and public policy.
This volume presents research on the recasting of European welfare
states from the European Forum on Welfare at the European
University Institute in Florence. The chapters include both
comparative analyses of topical issues (such as reforms of the
major social programmes: pensions, health, social security and the
changing political cleavages in welfare politics), and in-depth
studies of changes in the major European countries.
This volume presents research on the recasting of European welfare
states from the European Forum on Welfare at the European
University Institute in Florence. The chapters include both
comparative analyses of topical issues (such as reforms of the
major social programmes: pensions, health, social security and the
changing political cleavages in welfare politics), and in-depth
studies of changes in the major European countries.
The objectives are: to analyze the impact of retrenchment; reform
and add to the ongoing debates about policy convergence; the
origins of pressures for reform (domestic and internal); the
shifting balance of power between modernizers and vested interests;
and the nature of the trade-offs involved in social policy
innovation and the outcomes in terms of cost saving, resource
redeployment and equality.
To what extent has the process of European integration re-drawn the
boundaries of national welfare states? What are the effects of such
re-drawing? Boundaries count: they are essential in bringing
together individuals, groups, and territorial units, and for
activating or strengthening shared ties between them. If the
profile of boundaries changes over time, we might expect
significant consequences on bonding dynamics, i.e. on the way
solidarity is structured in a given political community. The book
addresses these two questions in a broad historical and comparative
perspective. The first chapter sets out a novel theoretical
framework which re-conceptualizes the welfare state as a 'bounded
space' characterized by a distinct spatial politics. This
reconceptualization takes as a starting point the 'state-building
tradition' in political science and in particular the work of Stein
Rokkan. The second chapter briefly outlines the early emergence and
expansion of European welfare states till World War II. Chapters 3
and 4 analyse the relationship between domestic welfare state
developments and the formation of a supranational European
Community between the 1960s and the 2000s, illustrating how the
process of European integration has increasingly eroded the social
sovereignty of the nation-state. Chapter 5 focuses on new emerging
forms of sub-national and trans-national social protection, while
Chapter 6 discusses current trends and future perspectives for a
re-structuring of social protection at the EU level. While there is
no doubt that European integration has significantly altered the
boundaries of national welfare, de-stabilizing delicate political
and institutional equilibria, the book concludes by offering some
suggestions on how a viable system of multi-level social protection
could possibly emerge within the new EU wide boundary
configuration.
To what extent has the process of European integration re-drawn the
boundaries of national welfare states? What are the effects of such
re-drawing? Boundaries count: they are essential in bringing
together individuals, groups, and territorial units, and for
activating or strengthening shared ties between them. If the
profile of boundaries changes over time, we might expect
significant consequences on bonding dynamics, i.e. on the way
solidarity is structured in a given political community. The book
addresses these two questions in a broad historical and comparative
perspective. The first chapter sets out a novel theoretical
framework which re-conceptualizes the welfare state as a 'bounded
space' characterized by a distinct spatial politics. This
reconceptualization takes as a starting point the 'state-building
tradition' in political science and in particular the work of Stein
Rokkan. The second chapter briefly outlines the early emergence and
expansion of European welfare states till World War II. Chapters 3
and 4 analyse the relationship between domestic welfare state
developments and the formation of a supranational European
Community between the 1960s and the 2000s, illustrating how the
process of European integration has increasingly eroded the social
sovereignty of the nation-state. Chapter 5 focuses on new emerging
forms of sub-national and trans-national social protection, while
Chapter 6 discusses current trends and future perspectives for a
re-structuring of social protection at the EU level. While there is
no doubt that European integration has significantly altered the
boundaries of national welfare, de-stabilizing delicate political
and institutional equilibria, the book concludes by offering some
suggestions on how a viable system of multi-level social protection
could possibly emerge within the new EU wide boundary
configuration.
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