The Dynamics Of Welfare Markets

Author : Clémence Ledoux,Karen Shire,Franca van Hooren
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030566234

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The Dynamics of Welfare Markets by Clémence Ledoux,Karen Shire,Franca van Hooren Pdf

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets. It maps the common ground and uncovers new research directions for the future study of actors, policies and institutions shaping the growth and dynamics of European welfare markets. The book defines welfare markets as politically shaped, regulated and state supported markets that provide social goods and services through the competitive activities of non-state actors. The chapters focus on what happens after states have initiated welfare markets, with equal weight given to the analysis of the agency of state actors and non-state actors in the contraction, stabilisation, and disruption of welfare markets. By focusing the analysis on two cases of welfare markets, private pensions and home-based domestic/care work, the contributions explore and compare the dynamics of different types of markets. The research will be of use to sociologists and scholars of social policy interested in the social dimension of welfare markets, political scientists and political economists, as well as diverse epistemic communities across the social sciences. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Clémence Ledoux,Karen Shire,Franca van Hooren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030566242

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The Dynamics of Welfare Markets by Clémence Ledoux,Karen Shire,Franca van Hooren Pdf

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets. It maps the common ground and uncovers new research directions for the future study of actors, policies and institutions shaping the growth and dynamics of European welfare markets. The book defines welfare markets as politically shaped, regulated and state supported markets that provide social goods and services through the competitive activities of non-state actors. The chapters focus on what happens after states have initiated welfare markets, with equal weight given to the analysis of the agency of state actors and non-state actors in the contraction, stabilisation, and disruption of welfare markets. By focusing the analysis on two cases of welfare markets, private pensions and home-based domestic/care work, the contributions explore and compare the dynamics of different types of markets. The research will be of use to sociologists and scholars of social policy interested in the social dimension of welfare markets, political scientists and political economists, as well as diverse epistemic communities across the social sciences. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Ingo Bode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135905606

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The Culture of Welfare Markets by Ingo Bode Pdf

This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular field of old age provision, including both retirement provision and elderly care. It goes beyond a mere social policy analysis by investigating major cultural underpinnings of the new (quasi-)markets, with these underpinnings embracing collective normative representations of how societies (should) institutionally handle old age. The book looks at whether pension and care systems are converging under the influence of globalization – with marketization being a key phenomenon – and to what extent this is creating a transnational culture of welfare markets. This book, the first book to systematically describe and analyse the phenomenon of welfare markets, elucidates the complex cultural underpinnings of care and pensions systems in an era of marketization, arguing that we are facing a cultural struggle over the way late modern societies conceptualize institutional old-age provision.

Author : Joel Blau,Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195385267

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The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy by Joel Blau,Mimi Abramovitz Pdf

This third edition deploys its distinctive model of how policies develop to include an analysis of the social policy initiatives of the Obama administration. With more graphics, updated charts, and sidebars to highlight main points, this book explains the evolution of US social policy.

Author : David Stoesz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190251123

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The Dynamic Welfare State by David Stoesz Pdf

"The Dynamic Welfare State accounts for the transition of social programming from governmental to corporate auspices, identifying not only the primary beneficiaries of emerging social markets, but the increasing influence of wealthy individuals and corporations in crafting public policy to meet industry requirements as well. Significantly, the degradation of social services, evident in the poverty trap, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, and the school-to-prison pipeline contributes to public defection from the welfare state"--

Author : Peter Taylor-Gooby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0333678206

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Choice and Public Policy by Peter Taylor-Gooby Pdf

Author : Jane Falkingham,John Hills
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017085965

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The Dynamic of Welfare by Jane Falkingham,John Hills Pdf

A study based on a recent work by the Welfare State Programme at the London School of Economics, this work examines the impact of the welfare state as a means of redistributing incomes. It includes the results of an LSE microsimulation model of lifetime incomes, taxes and benefits.

Author : Jane R. Gingrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139499187

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Making Markets in the Welfare State by Jane R. Gingrich Pdf

Over the past three decades, market reforms have transformed public services such as education, health, and care of the elderly. Whereas previous studies present markets as having similar and largely non-political effects, this book shows that political parties structure markets in diverse ways to achieve distinct political aims. Left-wing attempts to sustain the legitimacy of the welfare state are compared with right-wing wishes to limit the state and empower the private sector. Examining a broad range of countries, time periods, and policy areas, Jane R. Gingrich helps readers make sense of the complexity of market reforms in the industrialized world. The use of innovative multi-case studies and in-depth interviews with senior European policymakers enriches the debate and brings clarity to this multifaceted topic. Scholars and students working on the policymaking process in this central area will be interested in this new conceptualization of market reform.

Author : Peter Taylor-Gooby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349263028

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Choice and Public Policy by Peter Taylor-Gooby Pdf

Public policies increasingly emphasize active consumerism, entrepreneurship on the part of service providers and professionals, privatisation and an expanded role for markets. Choice and Public Policy draws on research by economists, psychologists, sociologists and public policy experts. The research demonstrates that the traditional rational choice model of economic behaviour is unsatisfactory in providing accounts of the way people choose in relation to work, saving, spending, investment and social welfare. It also shows that the public policies of active consumerism, public sector entrepreneurship and privatisation based on this approach are seriously flawed.

Author : Nanna Mik-Meyer
Publisher : Social and Political Power
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526110296

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The Power of Citizens and Professionals in Welfare Encounters by Nanna Mik-Meyer Pdf

This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucracy or contributes to the sociology of professions.

Author : David Rich
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4372805

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The Economics of Welfare by David Rich Pdf

Building on his earlier Praeger work, Contemporary Economics, Rich here examines current and historical, theoretical and practical, notions of welfare economics. Through an in-depth discussion of the theories of Edgeworth, Pareto, and Slutsky, the author analyzes how the present approach to welfare economics developed and how it has failed in significant ways to alleviate the problems of poverty and unemployment. Rich then develops a new theory of welfare economics based on the concept of dynamic disequilibrium and designed to respond to present-day economic and social realities. Scholars and students of both economics and public policy will find Rich's work a significant contribution to contemporary debates on welfare policy directions. Divided into four parts, the volume begins by redefining the problem of welfare economics. In contrast to those who see the problem as simply the redistribution of income, Rich argues that the challenge today is to use our present economic system to absorb welfare recipients and make them productive members of the economy. He argues further that current approaches to the welfare situation are Keynesian and therefore relevant to a different era--that of the Great Depression. In subsequent chapters, Rich develops his theory of contemporary welfare economics, utilizing a welfare utility function and incorporating the components of government, industry, and labor. Designed to make the economy more efficient without the redistribution of income, Rich's proposals include making welfare payments contingent upon training and applying training to the needs of the business sector. Only by employing a theory more rooted in contemporary realities, Rich argues, can we ultimately remove the heavy burden of welfare so detrimental to large segments of society.

Author : Ingo Bode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135905613

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The Culture of Welfare Markets by Ingo Bode Pdf

This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular field of old age provision, including both retirement provision and elderly care. It goes beyond a mere social policy analysis by investigating major cultural underpinnings of the new (quasi-)markets, with these underpinnings embracing collective normative representations of how societies (should) institutionally handle old age. The book looks at whether pension and care systems are converging under the influence of globalization – with marketization being a key phenomenon – and to what extent this is creating a transnational culture of welfare markets. This book, the first book to systematically describe and analyse the phenomenon of welfare markets, elucidates the complex cultural underpinnings of care and pensions systems in an era of marketization, arguing that we are facing a cultural struggle over the way late modern societies conceptualize institutional old-age provision.

Author : William C. Mitchell,Randy T Simmons
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010471535

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Beyond Politics by William C. Mitchell,Randy T Simmons Pdf

Traditional welfare economics has held that "market failures" are fairly common and that they are best addressed through the intervention of governments. In "Beyond Politics, " Professors Mitchell and Simmons present the traditional view and compare it to the modern theory of public choice, which emphasizes the actual rather than the ideal workings of governments. By reuniting the insights of economics with those of political science, the authors have produced a unified and powerful statement about the market process, property rights, contracts, and government. "Beyond Politics" offers an accessible and reliable introduction to these matters while significantly advancing our understanding of them.

Author : Lutz Leisering,Robert Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015043229924

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The Dynamics of Modern Society by Lutz Leisering,Robert Walker Pdf

Introduces the reader to dynamic analysis, demonstrating its contribution to public policy formation in Europe and the USA. Key concepts underlying dynamic analysis are explored, providing an account of the way society works, the nature of poverty, and the impact of social assistance on welfare.

Author : Mari Miura
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801465925

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Welfare through Work by Mari Miura Pdf

High economic growth and relatively equitable distribution were among the most conspicuous characteristics of the postwar Japanese political economy. The lure of the Japanese model, however, has faded since the 1990s. Growth is in short supply and equality a thing of the past. In Welfare through Work, Mari Miura looks in depth at Japan's social protection system as a factor in the contemporary malaise of the Japanese political economy. The Japanese social protection system should be understood as a system of "welfare through work," Miura suggests, because employment protection has functionally substituted for income maintenance. A gendered dual system in the labor market allowed a high degree of labor market flexibility, which enabled Japan to achieve high employment rates as well as strong legal protections for regular workers. In recent years, conservatives gradually replaced the productivism and cooperatism that had resulted from earlier party politics with neoliberalism, which, in turn, hampered the effectiveness of the welfare through work system. In Miura's view, the dynamics of partisan competition fostered ideational renewal, just as the political visions and ideologies of the governing party strongly affected the design of the social protection system. In the scenario Miura describes, the partisan dynamics since the 1990s resulted in the policy change that further undermined the social protection system, and the ensuing disruption has been felt throughout Japan.