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Featuring contributions from leading international scholars of
social policy, this dynamic Research Handbook provides a
comprehensive overview of conceptual and methodological
developments in leave policy research, as well as state-of-the-art
findings on leave policy determinants and outcomes globally. The
topic of inequality is placed at the centre of the Research
Handbook, to strengthen the global debate and encourage broader
thinking about the interconnections between leave policy design and
social inequalities. Chapters illustrate the continued relevance of
this correlation in the context of gendered care and employment
practices, precarious, underinsured, and nonstandard employment,
informal economies, migration, family changes, and growing
financial strains for parents. Using parental leave policy as an
empirical lens to further our understanding of the intersectional
nature of social inequalities, the editors ultimately consider
whether there is a case to reconfigure leave policy as a social
right. This incisive Research Handbook will be essential reading
for a multi-disciplinary audience of students and scholars of
social policy, family studies, gender studies, sociology, social
work, and public policy. Its evaluation of cutting-edge
developments in leave policy will also benefit national and
international policy makers, as well as HR leaders interested in
parenting leave best practice.
Published ten years after the first edition, this new Handbook
offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare
systems of all 28 EU member states and their recent reforms, giving
the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative
welfare research. Additional chapters provide detailed information
on EU social policy, as well as comparative analyses of European
welfare systems and their reform pathways. For this second edition,
all chapters have been updated and substantially revised, and
Croatia additionally included. The second edition of this Handbook
is most timely, given the often-fundamental welfare state
transformations against the background of the financial and
economic crises, transforming social policy ideas, as well as
political shifts in a number of European countries. The book sets
out to analyse these new developments when it comes to social
policy. In the first part, all country chapters provide systematic
and comparable information on the foundations of the different
national welfare systems and their characteristics. In the second
part, using a joint conceptual foundation, they focus on policy
changes (especially of the last two decades) in different social
policy areas, including old-age, labour market, family, healthcare,
and social assistance policies. As the comparative chapters
conclude, European welfare system landscapes have been in constant
motion in the last two decades. While austerity is not to be seen
on the aggregate level, the in-depth country studies show that all
policy sectors have been characterised by different reform
directions and ideas. The findings not only reveal both change and
continuity, but also policy reversal as a distinct type that
characterises social policy reform. The book provides a rich
resource to the international welfare state research community, and
is also useful for social policy teaching.
In this book, an international group of public policy scholars
revisit the stage of formulating policy solutions by investigating
the basic political dimensions inherent to this critical phase of
the policy process. The book focuses attention on how policy makers
craft their policy proposals, match them with public problems,
debate their feasibility to build coalitions and dispute their
acceptability as serious contenders for government consideration.
Based on international case studies, this book is an invitation to
examine the uncertain and often indeterminate aspects of
policy-making using qualitative analysis embedded in a political
perspective.
Published ten years after the first edition, this new Handbook
offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare
systems of all 28 EU member states and their recent reforms, giving
the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative
welfare research. Additional chapters provide detailed information
on EU social policy, as well as comparative analyses of European
welfare systems and their reform pathways. For this second edition,
all chapters have been updated and substantially revised, and
Croatia additionally included. The second edition of this Handbook
is most timely, given the often-fundamental welfare state
transformations against the background of the financial and
economic crises, transforming social policy ideas, as well as
political shifts in a number of European countries. The book sets
out to analyse these new developments when it comes to social
policy. In the first part, all country chapters provide systematic
and comparable information on the foundations of the different
national welfare systems and their characteristics. In the second
part, using a joint conceptual foundation, they focus on policy
changes (especially of the last two decades) in different social
policy areas, including old-age, labour market, family, healthcare,
and social assistance policies. As the comparative chapters
conclude, European welfare system landscapes have been in constant
motion in the last two decades. While austerity is not to be seen
on the aggregate level, the in-depth country studies show that all
policy sectors have been characterised by different reform
directions and ideas. The findings not only reveal both change and
continuity, but also policy reversal as a distinct type that
characterises social policy reform. The book provides a rich
resource to the international welfare state research community, and
is also useful for social policy teaching.
This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to
provide international perspectives on the politics of parental
leave policies in different parts of the world. Initially looking
at the politics of care leave policies in eight countries across
Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia, the book moves on to
consider a variety of key issues in depth, including gender
equality, flexibility and challenges for fathers in using leave. In
the final section of the book, contributors look beyond the early
parenthood period to consider possible future directions for care
leave policy in order to address the wider changes and challenges
that our societies face.
This comprehensive study, part of the International Library of
Policy Analysis, brings together for the first time a systemic
overview of policy analysis activities in Germany. Written by
leading experts in the field - including informed practitioners -
it outlines the development of the discipline, identifies its role
in academic education and research, and examines its styles and
methods. The book also focuses on the role of policy analysis for
governments and parliaments, for parties, social partners, and
interest groups. By offering a rich and timely analysis of policy
analysis in Germany, this book is a valuable resource for academic
exchange and for teaching, particularly in the fields of political
science, social sciences, economics and geography. Moreover, by its
broad, comprehensive understanding of 'policy analysis', the book
will be of practical relevance and shape the debate for the future
development of policy analysis in Germany and the different spheres
where it is practised.
Die Familienpolitik stellte wahrend der letzten Jahre sowohl in
Deutschland als auch in OEsterreich eines der Politikfelder mit der
hoechsten Reformtatigkeit dar. Fur die vergleichende
Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung kam dies uberraschend, war doch
regelmassig auf die Reformunfahigkeit der sogenannten
konservativen, familialistischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten v.a. im Bereich
neuer sozialer Risiken wie der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf
hingewiesen worden. Wie also sind diese ploetzlichen,
weitreichenden Reformen zu erklaren? Um dies zu beantworten,
untersucht Sonja Blum die Reformprozesse in der Elternzeit sowie
der oeffentlichen Kinderbetreuung, darunter z.B. die Einfuhrung des
Elterngelds in Deutschland 2007 oder die Einfuhrung des
einkommensabhangigen Kinderbetreuungsgelds in OEsterreich 2010. Das
Buch zeichnet ein umfassendes Bild der veranderten Determinanten
von Familienpolitik in beiden Landern, darunter v.a. neue
Akteurskonstellationen, neue Ideen sowie vertikale und horizontale
Policytransfers im Kontext eines verstarkten familienpolitischen
Engagements der Europaischen Union.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Politics -
International Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 2,3,
University of Osnabruck, language: English, abstract: "The Western
Balkans, and in particular Kosovo, constitute an interesting area
of study in the field political science and international relations
in that, it not only brings into focus the development and
evolution of the European Union (EU) since its inception, but also
offers to define the transatlantic relationship between the
European Union and the United States of America (USA). The Kosovo
Conflict and the surrounding events throughout the Balkans have
repeatedly demonstrated that the European Union still lacks the
political, judicial and military competencies in its collective
approaches to security and foreign policy. Since its inception, the
EU had been, and continues to be greatly dependent on its partner
and ally, the United States. Hence, the EU was characterized with
the Capability-Expectations Gap (CEP), stating that the
international environment and the EU itself expect higher outcomes
than it is actually capable of delivering. Consequently, the
incidents within mainland Europe were accompanied by continuous
efforts to improve their Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
During the course of this paper I would like bring into view an
objective assessment, in the application of the European Union's
collective approach to regional and international security, and the
outreach of its common foreign policy objectives. (...) I would
(also) like to find out whether the presence and involvement of the
EU and the US in Kosovo, is simply a method to impose stability and
increase security in the region, whether a larger picture is
emerging regarding the geopolitical positioning of both entities in
Kosovo, or if their interventions are based on a well-functioning
and genuine transatlantic cooperation which results in a successful
outcome. Furthermore, the questions arise as to whether or
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies -
Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabruck (Institut fur
Anglistik / Amerikanistik), course: Contemporary Asian American
Literature: Themes, Topics, Concerns, 22 entries in the
bibliography, language: English, abstract: "The inclusion of Indian
American authors into the genre of Asian American literature is
widely discussed and criticized. In my opinion as well as in the
view of a great amount of other people, ''Asian American
literature' is not an ethically or nationally bound category of
writing. Instead, it is a term which is used to refer to texts
written by North American writers of Asian descent.' This is the
reason why I have chosen works by Bharati Mukherjee and Meera Nair
for the following analysis. Both writers are born in India, both
immigrated to the United States of America, both deal with 'the
urgent negotiation and re-negotiation of the problematics of
gendered, ethicised and nationalised identity.' However, either one
of them reveals a different attitude towards their home country,
uses a different language style and enjoys different success.
(...)"
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