The Politics of the new welfare state / / edited by Giuliano Bonoli and David Natali

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 361.65094
• Soggetto topico: Welfare state; Welfare state - Economic aspects - European Union countries; Welfare state - Politics and government - European Union countries; Political Science; Law, Politics & Government; Political Theory of the State
• Soggetto geografico: European Union countries
• Soggetto non controllato: velferdsstaten - velferdssamfunnet - velferdspolitikk - sosialpolitikk - eu; Europa
• Persona (resp. second.): BonoliGiuliano; NataliDavid
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics of the 'New' Welfare States: Analysing Reforms in Western Europe -- PART I: Perspectives on the New Welfare State -- 2. A New Politics for the Social Investment Perspective: Objectives, Instruments, and Areas of Intervention in Welfare Regimes -- 3. The Governance of Economic Uncertainty: Beyond the 'New Social Risks' Analysis -- 4. Stress-testing the New Welfare State -- PART II: The Theoretical Underpinnings of the New Welfare State -- 5. Blame Avoidance and Credit Claiming Revisited -- 6. The Politics of Old and New Social Policies -- Part III: Trajectories of Change -- 7. Adapting Labour Market Policy to a Transformed Employment Structure: The Politics of 'Triple Integration' -- 8. Childcare Politics in the 'New' Welfare State: Class, Religion, and Gender in the Shaping of Political Agendas -- 9. Europe's Transformations Towards a Renewed Pension System -- 10. Insider-Outsider Dynamics and the Reform of Job Security Legislation -- Part IV: Continent-wide Perspectives -- 11. Turning Vice into Vice: How Bismarckian Welfare States have Gone from Unsustainability to Dualization -- 12. The New Spatial Politics of Welfare in the EU -- Conclusion -- 13. Multidimensional Transformations in the Early 21st Century Welfare States -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Politics of the New Welfare State the main reforms in work and welfare are summarized and analyzed to provide up-dated evidence of policy change and its main determinants to policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders interested in the field.
• Titolo autorizzato: Politics of the new welfare state
• ISBN: 1-283-83493-6; 0-19-161153-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815419003321
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