The Spanish Welfare State In European Context

Author : Ana Marta Guillén,Margarita León
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317014980

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The Spanish Welfare State in European Context by Ana Marta Guillén,Margarita León Pdf

Following the death of Franco, Spain underwent a transition to democracy in the mid-1970s. Although a rapid process of modernization occurred, the Spanish welfare state was seen, until fairly recently, as relatively underdeveloped. However, given the progressive Europeanization and expansion of Spanish social policy, questions arise as to whether the Spanish welfare system should still be considered as peripheral to West European welfare states. This volume is divided into three sections. The first section deals with broad trends in the evolution of the Spanish welfare state. To begin with, the consolidation path of social protection policies is explored. Attention is also paid to the process of Europeanization. Furthermore, the analysis explores advances in gender equality policies. In the second section, attention is turned to governance issues, such as collective bargaining, the interplay among levels of government, the welfare mix and public support for social policies. The third and final part of the book addresses five main challenges facing the Spanish welfare state in the 21st century, namely, the need to enhance flexicurity; to achieve a better work-family balance; to coordinate immigration policies with existing social protection; to tackle the persistence of high rates of relative poverty; and to face intense population ageing, both in terms of increasing needs for care and the reform of the pension system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198817055

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Author : G. Katrougalos,G. Lazaridis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230523722

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Southern European Welfare States by G. Katrougalos,G. Lazaridis Pdf

In this first analytical monograph on the subject, George Katrougalos and Gabriella Lazaridis examine the social welfare state of the main four Southern European countries, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece. They conduct an overall system analysis of the welfare state in Southern Europe which challenges the prevalent Ferrera model. Additionally, they present a detailed outlook of policies adopted in the fields of employment, migration, health, social security, pensions and gender-family issues.

Author : Nicola McEwen,Luis Moreno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134275076

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The Territorial Politics of Welfare by Nicola McEwen,Luis Moreno Pdf

This book considers empirically and theoretically the relationship between state welfare and territorial politics from a European perspective.

Author : Maurizio Ferrera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Europe, Southern
ISBN : OCLC:474614495

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Welfare State Reform in Southern Europe by Maurizio Ferrera Pdf

This book offers a detailed analysis of the efforts made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece.

Author : Peter Taylor-Gooby
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412933605

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Welfare States under Pressure by Peter Taylor-Gooby Pdf

Exerpt from the Financial Times Comment & Analysis: Europe takes on reform of the welfare state: A new study indicates that while the UK has transformed its social policies, the rest of Europe has been far from idle - `[A] stimulating new book on European welfare states [Welfare States under Pressure] suggests that the view of Britain as the only great welfare state reformer is overstated. And it adds that the game across Europe is about to change.... This new study argues that, particularly in the late 1990s, there has been more reform in the rest of Europe than is appreciated in the UK. And that Europe as a whole is on the cusp of much greater changes.... Certainly in France and possibly in Germany, the study judges, the traditional power balance between government, employers, unions and welfare providers has shifted such that government may be able to impose much more drastic measures... In the UK, by contrast, the impact of EU institutions may in some areas mean a degree of levelling up - as in healthcare. The most intriguing question is how far reformed welfare states will retain the social cohesion they are designed to produce. So far, even in the UK, they have proved remarkably resilient - adapting to changing needs rather than being "rolled back". This study′s verdict on the issue is "don′t know". But so much change is on the way, it says, that "the past is unlikely to be a good guide to the future"′ - Nicholas Timmins, The Financial Times Welfare States under Pressure provides a timely and comprehensive review of welfare policy-making in Europe. The text compares the different ways in which welfare states have responded to similar pressures over recent years, and considers how welfare is likely to develop in the future. This work: · provides up to date accounts of welfare development in Finland, Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and the United Kingdom. · explores how similar pressures can lead to different responses due to different policy-making mechanisms in each of the seven different countries · contains chapters written by leading national experts · written accessibly, and tightly edited, with each chapter following the same conceptual structure. This volume takes a fresh approach in its analysis of the future of the welfare state in Europe. It suggests that opportunities for radical change in welfare systems are now opening up, and that there will be little continuity between the future and the past/present of the welfare system in Europe. Welfare States under Pressure is invaluable to undergraduate students in social policy, European studies and politics, and will also be of great use to other social science students interested in Europe and its future development.

Author : Martin Rhodes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0714643440

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Southern European Welfare States by Martin Rhodes Pdf

The collection provides a series of both comparative and specific country analyses, furnishing new empirical detail and more general reflections on the character of social policy and welfare in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

Author : P. Taylor-Gooby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230286016

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Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe by P. Taylor-Gooby Pdf

The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy assumptions and goals of the key actors is central to this process. This book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.

Author : Klaus Schubert,Paloma de Villota,Johanna Kuhlmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319076805

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Challenges to European Welfare Systems by Klaus Schubert,Paloma de Villota,Johanna Kuhlmann Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all European welfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-based studies and comparative chapters. It focuses on: 1) the economic and financial crisis, 2) demographic change, and 3) the balance between avoiding risks and opening up opportunities in social policy. The results show that European welfare systems tend to face the same challenges in different ways and that also their responses to those challenges differ considerably. Although the EU also plays a part in shaping national welfare systems, it becomes evident that European welfare systems are by no means converging: in terms of social policy, national diversity within Europe is still a major factor that will shape future developments in European welfare systems.

Author : Philip Manow,Bruno Palier,Hanna Schwander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198807971

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Welfare Democracies and Party Politics by Philip Manow,Bruno Palier,Hanna Schwander Pdf

This volume provides an analytical framework that links welfare states to party systems, combining recent contributions to the comparative political economy of the welfare state and insights from party and electoral politics

Author : Mariely López-Santana
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438454696

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The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe by Mariely López-Santana Pdf

Detailed examination of the territorial and governance dimensions of contemporary welfare reforms in the United States and Europe. Until recently, studies of changes in the welfare state have tended to focus on transformations in the nature of social policies and their level of generosity. The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe concentrates on an often overlooked dimension: territorial and governance transformations. Employing detailed case studies and more than seventy-five interviews, Mariely López-Santana captures how a variety of postindustrial countries across both sides of the Atlantic have transformed the postwar organization of their labor market policy settings through decentralization, centralization, and delegation reforms. These changes have in turn changed the role of national and subnational levels of government, as well as nongovernmental actors, in the organization, management, and provision of labor market policies and services. López-Santana’s multidisciplinary, comparative, and multilevel approach to welfare state change is an original and important step forward in our understanding of welfare reforms enacted since the mid-1990s. Mariely López-Santana is Associate Professor of Politics and Government at George Mason University.

Author : Anton Hemerijck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199607594

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Changing Welfare States by Anton Hemerijck Pdf

Changing Welfare States is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it 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.

Author : Julian L. Garritzmann,Silja Häusermann,Bruno Palier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197601457

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The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II by Julian L. Garritzmann,Silja Häusermann,Bruno Palier Pdf

"Around the turn of the 21st century, new social policies started to develop all around the world. Bolsa Familia in Brazil, Progresa in Mexico, Superémonos in Costa Rica, Juntos in Peru... almost all Latin American countries have developed "conditional cash transfers" (CCTs), a new type of social policy usually conditioning benefits for poor families on their children going to school or attending health checkups. At the same time, some old industrialized countries famously known for being the heaven of the male breadwinner model have introduced surprising innovation in their welfare systems: in Germany massive investment in preschool childcare (Kita) since the early 2000s and the introduction of two "daddy months" in a German parental leave scheme in 2007; in Japan a well-paid parental leave in 2014 and universalization of free preschool education for ages 3-5 in 2017; in South Korea childcare facilities for children below the age of five made free of charge in 2013. Policies aimed at investing in children's care and education and in mothers' labor market participation seem to have bloomed almost everywhere. Worldwide there has been a sharp increase in access to secondary and tertiary education. Youth training programs have spread in many Latin American countries, while European countries have introduced youth guarantees, an innovative inclusive policy for their NEETs (young people not in education, employment, or training)"--

Author : Sheila Shaver
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785367168

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Handbook on Gender and Social Policy by Sheila Shaver Pdf

Providing a state of the art overview, this comprehensive Handbook is an essential introduction to the subject of Gender and Social Policy. Bringing together original contributions and research from leading researchers it covers the theoretical perspectives of the field, the central policy terrain of gender inequalities of income, employment and care, and family policy. Examining gender and social policy at both the regional and national level, the Handbook is an excellent resource for advanced students and scholars of sociology, political science, women’s studies, policy studies as well as practitioners seeking to understand how gender shapes the contours of social policy and politics.

Author : Nick Ellison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Political Science
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.