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001 2012406925
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005 20131228074948.0
008 130320s2013 enka b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780199607594 (Hbk.)
020 $a0199607591 (hbk)
020 $a9780199607600 (Pbk.)
020 $a0199607605 (pbk)
024 8 $a60001729038
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn826870714
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050 00 $aHN380.5.A8$bH45 2013
082 00 $a361.6/8094$223
100 1 $aHemerijck, A.$q(Anton)
245 10 $aChanging welfare states /$cby Anton Hemerijck.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2013.
300 $axxi, 485 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacontent
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 399-455) and index.
505 0 $a1. The Adaptive Capacities of Welfare States -- 2. The 'New Politics' of the Welfare State Revisited -- 3. Challenges to Twenty-First Century Social Policy Provision -- 4. Welfare Recalibration as Social Learning -- 5. Three Waves of Transformative Welfare State Change -- 6. Welfare Recalibration in Motion -- 7. Welfare Performance at a Glance -- 8. Escaping the Double Bind of Social Europe -- 9. Stress-Testing Welfare Regimes, Once Again -- 10. In Defence of Affordable Social Investment.
520 $a"In a comparative fashion, [this volume] analyses reform trajectories and political destinations in an era of rapid socioeconomic restructuring, including the critical impact of the global financial crisis on welfare state futures. The book argues that the overall scope of social reform across the member states of the European Union varies widely. In some cases welfare state change has been accompanied by deep social conflicts, while in other instances unpopular social reforms received broad consent from opposition parties, trade unions and employer organizations. The analysis reveals trajectories of welfare reform in many countries that are more proactive and reconstructive than is often argued in academic research and the media. Alongside retrenchments, there have been deliberate attempts - often given impetus by intensified European (economic) integration - to rebuild social programs and institutions and thereby accommodate welfare policy repertoires to the new economic and social realities of the 21st century. Welfare state change is work in progress, leading to patchwork mixes of old and new policies and institutions, on the lookout, perhaps, for greater coherence. Unsurprisingly, that search process remains incomplete, resulting from the institutionally bounded and contingent adaptation to the challenges of economic globalization, fiscal austerity, family and gender change, adverse demography, and changing political cleavages."--publisher website.
650 0 $aPublic welfare$zEuropean Union countries.
650 0 $aSocial problems$zEuropean Union countries.
651 0 $aEuropean Union countries$xSocial policy.