03280nam 2200625 a 450 991014622770332120170815160730.01-282-03012-497866120301231-4443-0679-01-4443-0680-4(CKB)1000000000724977(EBL)437467(OCoLC)437133007(SSID)ssj0000342240(PQKBManifestationID)11243168(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342240(PQKBWorkID)10284750(PQKB)10114320(MiAaPQ)EBC437467(EXLCZ)99100000000072497720080125d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReforming the Bismarckian welfare systems[electronic resource] /edited by Bruno Palier and Claude MartinMalden, MA ;Oxford Blackwell Pub.20081 online resource (173 p.)Broadening perspectives on social policyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-8348-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Reforming the BismarckianWelfare Systems; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; 1From 'a Frozen Landscape' to Structural Reforms:The Sequential Transformation of BismarckianWelfare Systems; 2When Past Reforms Open New Opportunities:Comparing Old-age Insurance Reforms in BismarckianWelfare Systems; 3To wards Neo-Bismarckian Health Care States? ComparingHealth Insurance Reforms in Bismarckian Welfare Systems; 4Continental Drift: On Unemployment Policy Change inBismarckian Welfare States5From Subsidiarity to 'Free Choice': Child- andElder-care Policy Reforms in France, Belgium,Germany and the Netherlands6Activation as a Common Framework for Social Policiestowards Lone Parents; 7Long-term Care Policies in Italy, Austria and France:Variations in Cash-for-Care Schemes; 8Family Policies in Germany and France:The Role of Enterprises and Social Partners; IndexGathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes.Demonstrates that, contrary to the common view, 'Bismarckian' welfare states have changed significantlyContains long term but also very accurate data and perspective beginning from the 1980s and up to the most recent reformsSpeaks to two literatures: the one on welfare state, social policies and welfare state reforms; the other to Broadening perspectives on social policy.Public welfareEuropeWelfare stateEuropeSocial policyElectronic books.Public welfareWelfare state.361.6/8094361.68094Palier Bruno147620Martin Claude1955-856026MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910146227703321Reforming the Bismarckian welfare systems1911238UNINA