Resilient welfare states in the European Union / / Anton Hemerijck and Robin Huguenot-Noel

• Autore: Hemerijck A (Anton)
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Agenda Publishing, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 pages)
• Disciplina: 361.65094
• Soggetto topico: Small groups; Social service; Social work administration
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Figures, tables and equations -- Foreword -- 1 The comeback of the welfare state -- Covid-19 and the false necessity of the equity and efficiency trade-off -- Resilient welfare states in the twenty-first century -- The merits of institutional analysis -- Outline of the book -- 2 Welfare recalibration under E(M)U integration -- Beyond inescapable trade-offs and trilemmas -- Welfare state expansion and E(M)U market integration -- Welfare state performance at a glance -- Employment performance, age and gender -- Social investment, robust families, training and education -- Reform pathways, sticking points and roadblocks -- Conclusion -- 3 Social investment and secure capabilities -- Introduction -- Welfare paradigms in motion -- The Beveridgean-Keynesian welfare state -- The neoliberal critique of the interventionist welfare state -- The social investment turn -- The welfare state's carrying capacity -- Beyond redistribution and social insurance -- The work-family life course -- Stocks, flows and buffers in "institutional complementarity" -- Life course multiplier -- Social investment critics -- The normative heart of the social investment paradigm -- Social rights as positive freedoms -- The good polity and distributive justice -- The good life and capacitation -- Secure capabilities and "fertile functionings" -- Stepping stone solidarity -- Logic of (welfare) state intervention -- Time horizon -- Governance -- 4 Towards a eurozone insurance union -- Introduction -- The political legacy of embedded liberalism -- EMU design and welfare recalibration -- The Great Recession austerity reflex -- Social Europe coming out from the cold -- Reconciling EU economic and monetary integration and domestic welfare provision. ; Popular support and limits to European solidarity -- 5 How Covid-19 bolsters welfare resilience -- Europe's experiential response to the Covid-19 existential shock -- Social investment reinforcement -- E(M)U macroeconomic regime to brace social investment welfare -- Advancing long-term welfare state resilience in the twenty-first century -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Examines the nature of European welfare provision and the untruths that surround it. They examine the impact of the austerity measures that followed the Great Recession, and consider its future design to equip European societies to face social change, global competition and external shocks.
• Titolo autorizzato: Resilient welfare states in the European Union
• ISBN: 1-78821-488-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795762003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Comparative Political Economy