1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784335903321

Autore

Lynch Julia <1970->

Titolo

Age in the welfare state : the origins of social spending on pensioners, workers, and children / / Julia Lynch [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-107-16494-X

1-280-47997-3

0-511-22050-2

0-511-22114-2

0-511-21916-4

0-511-31627-5

0-511-60692-3

0-511-21984-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Disciplina

362

Soggetti

Public welfare

Age groups - Government policy

Age discrimination

Patronage, Political

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction; 2. Measuring the age of welfare; 3. Age and the welfare state: theories and hypotheses; 4. Family allowances: wages, taxes, and the appeal to the self-employed; 5. Benefits for the unemployed: young and old in the fortress labor market; 6. Old-age pensions: the architecture of spending; 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or



particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793079803321

Autore

Brasher Sally Mayall <1961-, >

Titolo

Hospitals and charity : religious culture and civic life in medieval northern Italy / / by Sally Mayall Brasher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-2839-X

1-5261-1929-3

Edizione

[First published.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

362.1109

Soggetti

Medieval History

HISTORY / Europe / Medieval

European history: medieval period, middle ages

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction --1 Hospitals and charity: history and context --2 The foundation of hospitals --3 Hospital management --4 Internal life of the hospital --5 Jurisdictional disputes --6 Reform and consolidation --Conclusion --Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This work provides a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.