Resilient Welfare States in the European Union

Resilient Welfare States in the European Union
Author: Anton Hemerijck
Publisher: Comparative Political Economy
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781788214865

The European welfare systems, established after the Second World War, have been under sustained attack since the late 1970s from the neoliberal drive towards a small state and from the market as the foremost instrument for the efficient allocation of scarce resources. After the 2008 financial crash, Europe's high tax and generous benefits welfare states were, once again, blamed for economic stagnation and political immobilism. If anything, on the contrary, the long decade of the Great Recession proved that the welfare state remained a fundamental asset in hard times, stabilizing the economy, protecting households and individuals from poverty, reconciling gendered work and family life, while improving the skills and competences needed in Europe's knowledge economy and ageing society. Finally, the Covid-19 pandemic has, unsuprisingly, brought back into the limelight the productive role of welfare systems in guaranteeing basic security, human capabilities, economic opportunities and democratic freedoms. In this important contribution, Anton Hemerijck and Robin Huguenot-Noel examine the nature of European welfare provision and the untruths that surround it. They evaluate the impact of the austerity measures that followed the Great Recession, and consider its future design to better equip European societies to face social change, from global competition to accelerated demographic ageing, the digitization of work and climate change. Book jacket.

The Future of European Welfare

The Future of European Welfare
Author: Martin Rhodes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349265438

European welfare states are currently under stress and the 'social contracts' that underpin them are being challenged. First, welfare spending has arguably 'grown to limits' in a number of countries while expanding everywhere in the 1990s in line with higher unemployment. Second, demographic change and the emergence of new patterns of family and working life are transforming the nature of 'needs'. Third, the economic context and the policy autonomy of nation states has been transformed by 'globalization'. This book considers the implications of these challenges for European welfare states at the end of the twentieth century with interdisciplinary contributions from first-rate political scientists, economists and sociologists including Paul Ormerod.

New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe

New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe
Author: Catherine Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134912358

New Perspectives on the Welfare State offers an appraisal of comparative social policy and applies it to our current uncertainties concerning European communities and European-North American and East Asian relationships.

Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe

Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe
Author: P. Taylor-Gooby
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2005-08-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230286011

The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy assumptions and goals of the key actors is central to this process. This book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.

The Changing Welfare State in Europe

The Changing Welfare State in Europe
Author: David G. Mayes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-12-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 178254657X

As the standard of living has increased, aspirations and financial constraints have required major rethinking. There is considerable disparity between European countries in how they approach the welfare system, with differing concern over aspects such

Social Welfare Issues in Southern Europe

Social Welfare Issues in Southern Europe
Author: Maria Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0429557744

This volume is the first of its kind to discuss social welfare issues using case studies from a broad range of Southern European countries, both large and small, a decade after the financial crisis. It identifies similarities and differences in the ways in which Southern European countries engage with specific welfare issues and examines whether Southern European welfare is distinct from that of the rest of the continent. The book also engages with the impact of COVID-19 on the social welfare issues under investigation. The volume is divided into four sections, each examining in detail issues including employment, education, health, sexuality, globalization, social movements and migration. With its contributions from experts in the field, the volume is recommended for academics, researchers and students of sociology, social policy, economics, education, politics and social movements.

Euro-Austerity and Welfare States

Euro-Austerity and Welfare States
Author: H. Tolga Bolukbasi
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1487507763

Weighing in on the euro-austerity debate, this book uses case studies from three countries to evaluate the distinctive politics of fiscal policy and welfare state reform during a key period in Europe.

The Survival of the European Welfare State

The Survival of the European Welfare State
Author: Stein Kuhnle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134614632

'Crisis'. 'Breakdown'. 'Dismantlement.' Since the 1970's, these have become the catchphrases used to describe the condition of the welfare states in Europe, in academic and media analyses alike. This book provides an alternative, more optimistic interpretation. It aims to increase both theoretical understanding and empirical knowledge of recent welfare reforms in areas including Spain, Denmark, the UK, Germany and the EU as a whole. An essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in the welfare state.