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This book explores developments in the social legitimacy of
present-day European welfare states since the banking crisis of
2008. It analyses how the welfare attitudes of Europeans have been
influenced by economic recession and consequent welfare reforms, as
well as reactions to on-going debates around welfare. Utilising
cross-national perspectives, the book analyses the differences and
similarities in welfare attitudes of Europeans between 2008 and
2016. It highlights popular welfare attitudes towards different
groups of society, including migrants, the elderly and unemployed,
exploring if and why specific practices and policies would meet
popular resistance or approval. Social policy and sociology
scholars will find this book helpful, as the cross-national
analysis provides new insights into the contextual drivers of
welfare attitudes. It will also be useful to policy-makers and
practitioners working in Europe offering analysis of welfare
preferences, evaluations and perceptions. Contributors include: H.
Chung, L. de Blok, S. Delespaul, B. Ebbinghaus, M.A. Eger, H.
Ervasti, J. Gale, D. Gugushvili, A. Haugsgjerd, S. Kumlin, T.
Laenen, C.A. Larsen, B. Meuleman, J. Mewes, E. Naumann, E. Politi,
F. Roosma, C. Staerkle, W. van Oorschot
Presenting a stimulating contribution to the quickly advancing
field of welfare attitudes research, this important book develops
the understanding of welfare legitimacy. It does so by assessing
the nature of popular judgments about welfare deservingness, as
well as the roots and consequences of these attitudes, offering a
state-of-the-art picture of the latest theoretical, conceptual and
methodological developments. The Social Legitimacy of Targeted
Welfare provides a multidisciplinary view on deservingness
attitudes, with contributions from sociology, political science,
media studies and social psychology. It advocates a multi-actor
perspective, looking not only at citizens' attitudes, but also at
attitudes of social administrators and policy-makers. The chapters
also present new research methods in the field, including discrete
choice experiments, factorial surveys, focus groups, and media
content analysis. This book will be of interest to students and
researchers in sociology, political science, and the fields of
social psychology, philosophy, economics and history. It will help
practitioners and policymakers in social policy, social work and
healthcare understand popular perceptions and beliefs regarding
just distributions of welfare. Contributors include: H. Blomberg,
A. Bos, C. Buss, R. de Vries, M. De Wilde, B. Ebbinghaus, S. Evers,
A. Fladmoe, B.B. Geiger, M. Hiligsmann, M. Jeene, J. Kallio, O.
Kangas, A. Kootstra, C. Kroll, S. Kumlin, T. Laenen, D. Lepianka,
B. Meuleman, E. Naumann, M. Niemela, A. Paulus, J. Ragusa, T.
Reeskens, F. Roosma, M. Sadin, K. Steen-Johnson, W. Uunk, M. van
der Aa, T. van der Meer, B. van Doorn, W. van Oorschot, D.
Wollebaek
Culture and Welfare State provides comparative studies on the
interplay between cultural factors and welfare policies. Starting
with an analysis of the historical and cultural foundations of
Western European welfare states, reflected in the competing
ideologies of liberalism, conservatism and socialism, the book goes
on to compare the Western European welfare model to those in North
America, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Comprehensive and
engaging, this volume examines not only the relationships between
cultural change and welfare restructuring, taking empirical
evidence from policy reforms in contemporary Europe, but also the
popular legitimacy of welfare, focusing particularly on the
underlying values, beliefs and attitudes of people in European
countries. This book will be of great interest to sociologists and
political scientists, as well as social policy experts interested
in a cultural perspective on the welfare state.
It is often argued that European welfare states, with regulated
labour markets, relatively generous social protection and
relatively high wage equality, have become counter-productive in a
globalised and knowledge-intensive economy. Using in-depth,
comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of employment, welfare
and citizenship in a number of European countries, this book
challenges this view. It provides: an overview of employment and
unemployment in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century; a
comprehensive critique of the idea of globalisation as a challenge
to European welfare states; detailed country chapters with new and
previously inaccessible information about employment and
unemployment policies written by national experts. Europe's new
state of welfare is essential reading for students and teachers of
social policy, welfare studies, politics and economics.
'Invisible social security' is a term coined by Jos Berghman in his
early work to draw attention to those aspects of social security
that easily tend to be neglected in an instrumental perspective
that conceives of social security merely as a particular set of
instruments that national welfare states deploy to guarantee basic
living standards to their citizens. Among others, Berghman
emphasised that social security should rather be conceptualised in
a situational sense, that is, as a state of being in which citizens
feel confident about themselves and about their future lives. This
book, Invisible Social Security Revisited, is a collection of
essays published at the occasion of the retirement of Jos Berghman
as Professor of Social Policy at KU Leuven - University of Leuven.
Taking the notion of 'invisible social security' as a point of
reference, nearly thirty years after it was coined, the authors
address a series of contemporary issues in social security research
and policy-making. One can read about social protection in the past
and in the future, about prevention and activation, about European
and local policies, about poverty and social exclusion, about
feelings of insecurity and failing protection of informal workers,
about social values in relation to social policies, and so on. The
wide range of issues that are thus covered goes to show that over
the years the concept of 'invisible social security' has retained
its academic appeal, as well as its significance for the conceptual
and empirical understanding of social security policies and
realities. Taken together, the essays provide the reader with
up-to-date and innovative ideas and information on important
questions regarding the social protection of citizens. This Liber
Amicorum for Jos Berghman is published at the occasion of his
retirement as Professor of Social Policy at the Centre for
Sociological Research of the KU Leuven - University of Leuven, 1
October 2014.
Originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of
Social Security, issue 4, Volume 2, this book aims to review and
discuss the disability policies that have developed in six Western
countries in recent years. What have been the major changes? Have
the disability policies of these countries become more similar in
the course of the 1990s? If so, is is possible to identify a closer
relationship between the emerging EU Disability Strategy and
national policy developments in this area? The countries discussed
- Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, Ireland and
Spain - are all represented in an academic network on vocational
rehabilitation of disabled people that seeks to understand and
compare policy developments in the field. All articules include
detailed information on recent changes in disability policies in
the respective countries.
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