The Quest For A Divided Welfare State

Author : John Lapidus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030247843

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The Quest for a Divided Welfare State by John Lapidus Pdf

This book deals with the quest for a divided welfare state in Sweden. The prime example is the rapid rise of private health insurance, which now constitutes a parallel system characterized by state subsidies for some and not for others. This functions as a kind of reverse means-testing, whereby primarily the upper classes get state support for new types of welfare consumption. Innovatively, Lapidus explains how such a parallel system requires not only direct and statutory state support but also indirect support, for example, from infrastructure built for the public health system. He goes on to examine how semi-private welfare funding is dependent on private provision and how the so-called 'hidden welfare state' gradually erodes the visible and former universal welfare state model, in direct contrast to its own stated goals. Who benefits from privatized welfare? How are the privatization of delivery and the privatization of funding linked? How does this impact public willingness to pay tax? All of these questions and more are discussed in this accessible volume.

Author : Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521013283

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Author : Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139936583

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The Divided Welfare State by Jacob S. Hacker Pdf

The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is less expensive and extensive, later to develop and slower to grow, than comparable programs abroad. American social spending is as high as spending in many European nations. What is distinctive is that so many social welfare duties are handled by the private sector with government support. With historical reach and statistical and cross-national evidence, The Divided Welfare State demonstrates that private social benefits have not been shaped by public policy, but have deeply influenced the politics of public social programs - to produce a social policy framework whose political and social effects are strikingly different than often assumed. At a time of fierce new debates about social policy, this book is essential to understanding the roots of America's distinctive model and its future possibilities.

Author : Richard M. Titmuss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:874686023

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Essays on "The Welfare State" by Richard M. Titmuss Pdf

Author : Remo Siza
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447360018

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The Welfare of the Middle Class by Remo Siza Pdf

In many European countries, processes of individualisation have contributed to transforming the middle class into a multitude of people, a sort of ‘middle mass’ with an unstable social identity and radical activism. The different ‘worlds’ of European welfare states seem progressively less able to manage this new kind of middle-class activism. This book is an essential contribution to ongoing public and academic debates on the unpredictability of middle-class attitudes and on their changing relations with the welfare state. Identifying key trends in the literature, it considers the impact of recent welfare reforms on the needs and preferences of the middle class.

Author : Ingo Bode
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781035331222

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The Fate of Social Modernity by Ingo Bode Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This thoroughly original book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of welfare arrangements and their wider context in Western Europe. Using the concept of social modernity, Ingo Bode investigates current challenges to these arrangements and examines prospects for progressive welfare reform.

Author : Martin Schuldes
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643901538

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Retrenchment in the American Welfare State by Martin Schuldes Pdf

The consolidation of public finance has become the most prevalent topic in recent policy discourse in the US. However, the political debate about fiscal "belt-tightening" stretches back to the last decades of the past millennium, induced by deteriorating economic conditions which followed the first oil price shock in the early 1970s. Retrenchment in the American Welfare State investigates to what extent different welfare state programs in the US were affected by cutbacks during the Republican Reagan era, on the one hand, and during the Democratic Clinton era on the other, and to what extent these cutbacks reveal certain "patterns" of retrenchment, and how the measured discrepancies can best be explained. (Series: Studies in North American History, Politics and Society/ Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas - Vol. 30)

Author : Nick Ellison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781134765706

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The Transformation of Welfare States? by Nick Ellison Pdf

'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 : UNESCO MGIEP
Publisher : UNESCO MGIEP
Page : 1838 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789391756048

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The International Science and Evidence Based Education (ISEE) Assessment by UNESCO MGIEP Pdf

The International Science and Evidence Based Education (ISEE) Assessment is an initiative of the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), and is its contribution to the Futures of Education process launched by UNESCO Paris in September 2019. In order to contribute to re-envisioning the future of education with a science and evidence based report, UNESCO MGIEP embarked on the first-ever large-scale assessment of knowledge of education.

Author : B. Rothstein,S. Steinmo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230109247

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Restructuring The Welfare State by B. Rothstein,S. Steinmo Pdf

The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing international competition for capital and labour are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competing pressures and offers a coherent analyses of both institutional resilience and institutional change. Adopting an evolutionary approach, this innovative volume demonstrates both how past practices and policies significantly affect the current options and how social and economic forces impinge upon each of these societies in surprisingly different ways. Cross-national in scope and unified in approach, Restructuring the Welfare State examines core issues facing the contemporary welfare state while at the same time significantly advancing historical institutionalist theory.

Author : James Midgley
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483308883

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Social Welfare for a Global Era by James Midgley Pdf

Written by internationally renowned author and scholar James Midgley, Social Welfare for a Global Era provides a comprehensive framework for examining social welfare from a global perspective. Drawing on a large body of literature and his own extensive knowledge of the field, Dr. Midgley offers students, scholars, and practitioners an up-to-date account of the complex ways social well-being is enhanced in the global era, including the major welfare institutions that provide a cultural context for social welfare policy and practice.

Author : Brian Shaev,Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351010566

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The Development of European Competition Policy by Brian Shaev,Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez Pdf

This book considers a central issue of our time: the relationship between the macroeconomic objectives of political parties in democratic countries and the legal framework of market economies. The impressive panel of contributors examines social-democratic policies on cartels, market concentration and competition in different European countries, spanning a hundred-year period (specifically the interwar period, the initial postwar period, the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s and 1990s, and the 2000s). This thought-provoking volume challenges the dominant belief that the EU’s economic system and competition policy were mainly influenced by neoliberal economic thinking, instead showing that Keynesian and social-democratic positions played a major role in the emergence of this system. It will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers interested in modern economic history, industrial organization, political economy, European legal history and political science.

Author : Marianne Takle,Janikke Solstad Vedeler,Mi Ah Schoyen,Kjetil Klette-Bøhler,Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000910223

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Citizenship and Social Exclusion at the Margins of the Welfare State by Marianne Takle,Janikke Solstad Vedeler,Mi Ah Schoyen,Kjetil Klette-Bøhler,Asgeir Falch-Eriksen Pdf

This book presents a critical account of how citizenship unfolds among socially marginalised groups in democratic welfare states. Legal, political and sociological perspectives are applied to offer an assessment of the extent and depth of citizenship for marginalised groups in countries which are expected to offer their members a highly inclusive form of citizenship. The book studies the legal and political status of members of a nation-state, and analyses how this is followed up in practice, by examining the subjective feelings of membership, belonging or identity, as well as opportunities to participate actively and be included in different areas of society. Showing how the welfare state and society treat citizens at risk of social exclusion and offering new insights into the conceptual interconnection between citizenship, social exclusion, and the democratic welfare state, the book will be of interest to all scholars, students and academics of social policy, social work and public policy.

Author : David Gladstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Human services
ISBN : 0333693310

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The Twentieth-century Welfare State by David Gladstone Pdf

Author : Jason L. Powell,Jon Hendricks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441900661

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The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society by Jason L. Powell,Jon Hendricks Pdf

In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence social policy at a national and local level. Among the many ramifications of these changes is that globalizing influences may hinder the ability of individual nation-states to effect policies that are beneficial to them on a local level. With contributions from thirteen countries worldwide, this collected work represents the first major comparative analysis on the effect of globalization on the international welfare state. The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society is divided into two major sections: the first draws from a number of leading social welfare researchers from diverse countries who point to the nation-state as case studies; highlighting how it goes about establishing and revising social welfare provisions. The second portion of the volume then moves to a more global perspective in its analysis and questioning of the impact of globalization on citizenship, ageing and marketization. The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society seeks to encourage debate about the implications of the most pressing social welfare issues in nation-states, and integrate analyses of policy and practice in particular countries struggling to provide social welfare support for their needy populations.