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Author: Maurizio Ferrera
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-02-07
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1134347316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a detailed analysis of the efforts made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece.
Author: H. Tolga Bolukbasi
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1487507763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeighing in on the euro-austerity debate, this book uses case studies from three countries to evaluate the distinctive politics of fiscal policy and welfare state reform during a key period in Europe.
Author: Stein Kuhnle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1134614632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Crisis'. 'Breakdown'. 'Dismantlement.' Since the 1970's, these have become the catchphrases used to describe the condition of the welfare states in Europe, in academic and media analyses alike. This book provides an alternative, more optimistic interpretation. It aims to increase both theoretical understanding and empirical knowledge of recent welfare reforms in areas including Spain, Denmark, the UK, Germany and the EU as a whole. An essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in the welfare state.
Author: Ugo Ascoli
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1447316886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Trente Glorieuses era of economic prosperity that followed World War II, Italy grew into one of Europe's--and, indeed, the world's--largest economies. While the more tumultuous decades since have resulted in the rise of the Italian welfare state, Italy remains a globally important economic player and important social policy indicator, but as of yet it has received little academic research attention. This is the first English-language book to explore the evolution of the Italian welfare state, with a particular emphasis on how it has changed since the 2008 economic crisis. Drawing on a variety of social policies--including pension, schooling, higher education, healthcare, and taxation policies--this collection both offers a broad overview of the Italian situation, featuring detailed analysis of the connections between particular policies and their outcomes, and a comparative approach that frames the Italian case within a larger European context.
Author: Gabriel Paquette
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 131714287X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEfforts to ascertain the influence of enlightenment thought on state action, especially government reform, in the long eighteenth century have long provoked stimulating scholarly quarrels. Generations of historians have grappled with the elusive intersections of enlightenment and absolutism, of political ideas and government policy. In order to complement, expand and rejuvenate the debate which has so far concentrated largely on Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together historians of Southern Europe (broadly defined) and its ultramarine empires. Each chapter has been explicitly commissioned to engage with a common set of historiographical issues in order to reappraise specific aspects of 'enlightened absolutism' and 'enlightened reform' as paradigms for the study of Southern Europe and its Atlantic empires. In so doing it engages creatively with pressing issues in the current historical literature and suggests new directions for future research. No single historian, working alone, could write a history that did justice to the complex issues involved in studying the connection between enlightenment ideas and policy-making in Spanish America, Brazil, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. For this reason, this well-conceived, balanced volume, drawing on the expertise of a small, carefully-chosen cohort, offers an exciting investigation of this historical debate.
Author: Nick Ellison
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-04-07
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1134765703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes -- The challenge of globalization -- Globalization and welfare regime change -- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies -- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes -- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems -- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes -- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.
Author: Christina Klenner
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9782874521829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on developments in the welfare states of the ten Central and Eastern European EU member states in the transformation process some 20 years after the end of state socialism. It also explores the shifts in gender relationships and inequalities, and tries to depict the interdependencies between these two processes. The contributors to this volume tackle the following main questions: how far are welfare states and gender regimes in these countries comparable with the types found in Western and Southern Europe? To what extend were traditional institutions and practices preserved under the new circumstances resulting from the system change? How have gender relations been affected by EU accession and welfare state change through the transformation process?
Author: Kees van Kersbergen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1107005639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform in advanced democracies.
Author: Silja Häusermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0521192722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates that political exchange and coalition building have become the key ingredients for continental European pension reform.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-26
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9004384111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKListen to the podcast about Cory Blad's chapter in this book 'Searching for Saviors: Economic Adversities and the Challenge of Political Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era'. This book seeks to explore welfare responses by questioning and going beyond the assumptions found in Esping-Andersen’s (1990) broad typologies of welfare capitalism. Specifically, the project seeks to reflect how the state engages, and creates general institutionalized responses to, market mechanisms and how such responses have created path dependencies in how states approach problems of inequality. Moreover, if the neoliberal era is defined as the dissemination and extension of market values to all forms of state institutions and social action, the need arises to critically investigate not only the embeddedness of such values and modes of thought in different contexts and institutional forms, but responses and modes of resistance arising from practice that might point to new forms of resilience.
