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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809985103321

Titolo

The changing face of welfare : consequences and outcomes from a citizenship perspective / / [edited by] Jrgen Goul Andersen ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK, : Policy Press, 2005

ISBN

1-4473-0370-9

1-281-15956-5

9786611159566

1-84742-140-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

Goul AndersenJrgen

Disciplina

306.094/09051

Soggetti

Welfare state - Europe

Public welfare - Europe

Europe Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2022).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fifteen -- Conclusion: policy change, welfare regimes and active citizenshipIndex.

Seven -- Citizenship and the activation of social protection: a comparative approachEight -- The active society and activation policy: ideologies, contexts and effects; Nine -- Individualising citizenship; Ten -- Gender equality, citizenship and welfare state restructuring; Eleven -- New forms of citizenship and social integration in European societies; Twelve -- The outcomes of early retirement in Nordic countries; Thirteen -- Early exit from the labour market, social exclusion and marginalisation in the Uk; Fourteen -- The emergence of social movements by social security claimants.

Cover; The Changing Face Of Welfare -- Consequences and outcomes from a citizenship perspective; Contents; List of tables and figures; Preface; Glossary; Notes on contributors; One -- 'Active' citizenship: the new face of welfare; Two -- The goals of social policy: context and change; Three -- Which way for the European social model: minimum standards or social quality?; Four -- The advent of a flexible life course and the reconfigurations of welfare; Five -- Citizenship, unemployment



and welfare policy; Six -- Paradoxes of democracy: the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe. The book applies a dynamic and change oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding social change. Using citizenship as a focus, several dimensions of change are analysed simultaneously: changes in the discipline of social policy itself; the changing character of social problems; changes in social policy and citizenship; and the emergence of new forms of social integration. The book also speculates on how different dimensions of change are interlinked.