Mixed Economies Welfare

Author : Norman Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317903802

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This book explains the changes that have occurred in welfare states since the early 1970s and considers some of the policy dilemmas that have arisen. Each of the chapters begins with an introduction to set the scene, followed by an examination of the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of the sector under discussion. Chapters analyse the major changes in the sectors, with issue-based conclusions highlighting the policy dilemmas identified in the chapters. The influence of ideology and values is given prominence throughout. Although each of the sectors has its own chapter, the book emphasises the importance of the relationships between the sectors, allowing each sector's place in the production and delivery of welfare to be assessed.

Author : Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447333227

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Understanding the mixed economy of welfare (second edition) by Powell, Martin Pdf

As the state withdraws from welfare provision, the mixed economy of welfare – involving private, voluntary and informal sectors – has become ever more important. This second edition of Powell’s acclaimed textbook on the subject brings together a wealth of respected contributors. New features of this revised edition include: • An updated perspective on the mixed economy of welfare (MEW) and social division of welfare (SDW) in the context of UK Coalition and Conservative governments • A conceptual framework that links the MEW and SDW with debates on topics of major current interest such as ‘Open Public Services’, ‘Big Society’, Any Qualified Provider’, Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and ‘Public Private Partnerships’ (PPP) Containing helpful features such as summaries, questions for discussion, further reading suggestions and electronic resources, this will be a valuable introductory resource for students of social policy, social welfare and social work at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Author : Amy C. Offner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691205205

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Sorting Out the Mixed Economy by Amy C. Offner Pdf

The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destruction In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on their lips, but Latin American realities soon revealed unexpected possibilities within the New Deal itself. In Colombia, Latin Americans and U.S. advisors ended up decentralizing the state, privatizing public functions, and launching austere social welfare programs. By the 1960s, they had remade the country’s housing projects, river valleys, and universities. They had also generated new lessons for the United States itself. When the Johnson administration launched the War on Poverty, U.S. social movements, business associations, and government agencies all promised to repatriate the lessons of development, and they did so by multiplying the uses of austerity and for-profit contracting within their own welfare state. A decade later, ascendant right-wing movements seeking to dismantle the midcentury state did not need to reach for entirely new ideas: they redeployed policies already at hand. In this groundbreaking book, Amy Offner brings readers to Colombia and back, showing the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury statebuilding. The untold story of how the road from the New Deal to the Great Society ran through Latin America, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy also offers a surprising new account of the origins of neoliberalism.

Author : Norman Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Welfare economics
ISBN : OCLC:1392375428

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Mixed Economies of Welfare by Norman Johnson Pdf

Author : Marjorie Mayo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349232567

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Communities and Caring by Marjorie Mayo Pdf

Communities and Caring explores the theoretical background of social policy debates around the mixed economy of welfare in relation to community participation and community development. Whilst providing a critical analysis of New Right Theories, the book explores alternative approaches based on increasing accountability and democratic pluralism, within the framework of active community participation. Drawing upon different experiences both in Europe (including Eastern, as well as Western Europe), in the United States and in the Third World, Marjorie Mayo emphasises the importance of continuing public sector support and resources for community participation and development; without such underlying public sector support, community participation will be unable to meet community needs.

Author : Jeanette Brejning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317159377

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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Welfare State by Jeanette Brejning Pdf

Over the past four decades many European welfare states have seen an increasing involvement of the commercial sector in their mixed economies of welfare. One aspect of this development that has yet to be fully understood in social policy analysis is the engagement of businesses to address social problems, such as social exclusion, through activities labelled as 'corporate social responsibility' ('CSR'). Although CSR has gained increasing currency on both national and international policy agendas since the 1990s, it remains a topic which is predominantly researched in business schools and from a business perspective. This book aims to redress this imbalance by focusing on the social aspect of CSR. Based on interviews with a wide spectrum of people who work with CSR professionally in England, Denmark and in the EU Commission, the book argues that when CSR is linked to social exclusion it is a way of renegotiating responsibilities in mixed economies of welfare. The book also offers a comprehensive historical understanding of CSR as it traces the emergence and development of CSR in West European welfare economies as diverse as England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany and France. By situating CSR within the conceptual framework of the mixed economy of welfare and using Historical Institutionalism as a theoretical perspective to explore and explain the relationship between the welfare state and CSR, this book makes an innovative contribution to critical debates in comparative social policy.

Author : Marjorie Mayo
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 033356751X

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Communities and Caring by Marjorie Mayo Pdf

Communities and Caring explores the theoretical background of social policy debates around the mixed economy of welfare in relation to community participation and community development. Whilst providing a critical analysis of New Right Theories, the book explores alternative approaches based on increasing accountability and democratic pluralism, within the framework of active community participation. Drawing upon different experiences both in Europe (including Eastern, as well as Western Europe), in the United States and in the Third World, Marjorie Mayo emphasises the importance of continuing public sector support and resources for community participation and development; without such underlying public sector support, community participation will be unable to meet community needs.

Author : Sanford Ikeda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134878680

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Dynamics of the Mixed Economy by Sanford Ikeda Pdf

Dynamics of the Mixed Economy applies the insights of modern Austrian political economy to examine economic policy in mixed economies. It compares and contrasts standard approaches to the growth of the state (including public choice) with that of modern Austrian political economy; examines in detail the nature and operation of the interventionist process in the context of nationalization, regulation and the welfare state; analyzes conditions that produce instability under laissez-faire capitalism; argues that the interventionist process is a 'spontaneous order'; and offers several 'pattern predictions' regarding the character and behaviour of really existing economies.

Author : Martin A. Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 144733325X

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Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare by Martin A. Powell Pdf

Author : Ugo Ascoli,Costanzo Ranci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781475749922

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Dilemmas of the Welfare Mix by Ugo Ascoli,Costanzo Ranci Pdf

Through research in the field of social care in six European Countries (France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and the U.K.) the authors of this volume highlight the role of nonprofit and commercial organizations in the new "welfare mix systems" and main social and institutional effects of such new order. This volume in the Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies series is the first attempt to bridge the relevant gap existing between the literature on the welfare state and studies on the nonprofit sector.

Author : Ivan T. Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139452649

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An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe by Ivan T. Berend Pdf

A major history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the twentieth-century European economy, examining both its failures and its successes in responding to the challenges of this crisis-ridden and troubled but highly successful age. The book surveys the European economy's chronological development, the main factors of economic growth, and the various economic regimes that were invented and introduced in Europe during the twentieth century. Professor Berend shows how the vast disparity between the European regions that had characterized earlier periods gradually began to disappear during the course of the twentieth century as more and more countries reached a more or less similar level of economic development. This accessible book will be required reading for students in European economic history, economics, and modern European history.

Author : Jeanette Brejning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317159360

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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Welfare State by Jeanette Brejning Pdf

Over the past four decades many European welfare states have seen an increasing involvement of the commercial sector in their mixed economies of welfare. One aspect of this development that has yet to be fully understood in social policy analysis is the engagement of businesses to address social problems, such as social exclusion, through activities labelled as 'corporate social responsibility' ('CSR'). Although CSR has gained increasing currency on both national and international policy agendas since the 1990s, it remains a topic which is predominantly researched in business schools and from a business perspective. This book aims to redress this imbalance by focusing on the social aspect of CSR. Based on interviews with a wide spectrum of people who work with CSR professionally in England, Denmark and in the EU Commission, the book argues that when CSR is linked to social exclusion it is a way of renegotiating responsibilities in mixed economies of welfare. The book also offers a comprehensive historical understanding of CSR as it traces the emergence and development of CSR in West European welfare economies as diverse as England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany and France. By situating CSR within the conceptual framework of the mixed economy of welfare and using Historical Institutionalism as a theoretical perspective to explore and explain the relationship between the welfare state and CSR, this book makes an innovative contribution to critical debates in comparative social policy.

Author : Fabio Giomi,Célia Keren,Morgane Labbé
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000592436

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Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe by Fabio Giomi,Célia Keren,Morgane Labbé Pdf

Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet, as historians and social scientists have shown, welfare has always been a ‘mixed economy’, wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted, collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare services. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of welfare by developing three innovative approaches. Firstly, it illuminates the productive nature of public/private entanglements. Far from amounting to a zero-sum game, the interactions between the two sectors have changed over time what welfare encompasses, its contents and targets, often engendering the creation of new fields of intervention. Secondly, this book departs from a well-established tradition of comparison between Western nation-states by using and mixing various scales of analysis (local, national, international and global) and by covering case studies from Spain to Poland and France to Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thirdly, this book goes beyond state centrism in welfare studies by bringing back a host of public and private actors, from municipalities to international organizations, from older charities to modern NGOs. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Michael B. Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : England
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020486317

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The Mixed Economy of Social Welfare by Michael B. Katz Pdf

Author : Harvester Wheatsheaf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0745015743

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Mixed Economies of Welfare Johnson by Harvester Wheatsheaf Pdf