Welfare States In A Turbulent Era

Author : Bent Greve
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
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Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 180392683X

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Welfare States in a Turbulent Era by Bent Greve Pdf

This insightful book provides a systematic analysis of the development of affluent Western welfare states in this turbulent era. It explores the consequences for welfare states of modern crises such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine. Most importantly, it investigates how to prioritise scarce resources in the face of many competing demands and argues that there is an urgent need to improve crisis funding whilst at the same time maintaining provision for vulnerable groups. Bringing together a diverse team of expert contributors, chapters explore the key challenges faced by welfare states in this turbulent era, including changing demographic compositions, the impact of technological advances on working practices, financial crises, and shifting voter attitudes and expectations. Emphasising how instability poses opportunities for new directions and developments, the book ultimately explores the pressures and possible ways forward for welfare states in years to come. Providing nuanced perspectives on welfare states, this timely book will be ideal for students and scholars of sociology, social and public policy, political science and development studies.

Author : Bent Greve
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781803926841

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Welfare States in a Turbulent Era by Bent Greve Pdf

This insightful book provides a systematic analysis of the development of affluent Western welfare states in this turbulent era. It explores the consequences for welfare states of modern crises such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine. Most importantly, it investigates how to prioritize scarce resources in the face of many competing demands and argues that there is an urgent need to improve crisis funding whilst at the same time maintaining provision for vulnerable groups. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Gary Craig
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803926155

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Social Justice in a Turbulent Era by Gary Craig Pdf

This incisive book examines how the values of social justice can be protected against attacks from the interacting economic, social, environmental, and health crises of the 21st century. Global contributors outline key elements of a political programme that resists the shift to the right caused by this turbulence through centring fairness, equality, respect and inclusion.

Author : Pat Armstrong,Susan Braedley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803925820

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Care Homes in a Turbulent Era by Pat Armstrong,Susan Braedley 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 thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care homes in our post-pandemic world. Building on more than a decade of collaborative international and interdisciplinary research in Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, it employs a feminist political economy framework to address the key challenges facing care homes in this turbulent era.

Author : Gráinne de Búrca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192640338

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Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era by Gráinne de Búrca Pdf

In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest and dismiss the idea of human rights. More surprisingly, scholars and public intellectuals, from both the progressive and the conservative side of the political spectrum, have also been deeply critical, dismissing human rights as flawed, inadequate, hegemonic, or overreaching. While acknowledging some of the shortcomings, this book presents an experimentalist account of international human rights law and practice and argues that the human rights movement remains a powerful and appealing one with widespread traction in many parts of the globe. Using three case studies to illuminate the importance and vibrancy of the movement around the world, the book argues that its potency and legitimacy rest on three main pillars: First, it is based on a deeply-rooted and widely appealing moral discourse that integrates the three universal values of human dignity, human welfare, and human freedom. Second, these values and their elaboration in international legal instruments have gained widespread - even if thin - agreement among states worldwide. Third, human rights law and practice is highly dynamic, with human rights being activated, shaped, and given meaning and impact through the on-going mobilization of affected individuals and groups, and through their iterative engagement with multiple domestic and international institutions and processes. The book offers an account of how the human rights movement has helped to promote human rights and positive social change, and argues that the challenges of the current era provide good reasons to reform, innovate, and strengthen that movement, rather than to abandon it or to herald its demise.

Author : Enrique Alberola
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781035300563

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Fiscal Policy in a Turbulent Era by Enrique Alberola Pdf

Recognising the regained importance of fiscal policy over the last two decades, this timely book provides much-needed insight into the changing practice of fiscal policy and how it is adapting to the unpredictable nature of the 21st century. Expert academic and practitioner contributors consider the resources which underpin current fiscal policy, assessing its overall effectiveness before outlining the changing priorities –ageing, inequality, climate change- and the financial tools available, and considering the future of fiscal policy in uncertain times.

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802209549

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Populism and Human Rights in a Turbulent Era by Alison Brysk Pdf

How can we interpret and respond to the rise of populist regimes that infringe on human rights? This incisive book analyses illiberal, repressive, and patriarchal logics of rule, identifying critical catalysts in the meteoric growth of populist agendas. Contributors scrutinise the records of authoritarian and nationalist leaders in Brazil, Hungary, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Turkey and the United States.

Author : Bent Greve,Amílcar Moreira,Minna van Gerven
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781035306497

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Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy by Bent Greve,Amílcar Moreira,Minna van Gerven Pdf

Research in social policy has been greatly influenced by the emergence of modern political economy in the late 1970s. The Handbook on the Political Economy of Social Policy offers a systematic, yet comprehensive, framework for understanding how concepts, theoretical standpoints and methodological approaches stemming from political economy have been applied to the study of social policies, and models of welfare provision. The authors also signpost current developments and discuss their likely impact on future research.

Author : John J. Rodger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:609457454

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From a Welfare State to a Welfare Society by John J. Rodger Pdf

Author : Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691214153

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Development, Democracy, and Welfare States by Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman Pdf

This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization. After World War II, communist regimes in Eastern Europe adopted wide-ranging socialist entitlements while conservative dictatorships in East Asia sharply limited social security but invested in education. In Latin America, where welfare systems were instituted earlier, unequal social-security systems favored formal sector workers and the middle class. Haggard and Kaufman compare the different welfare paths of the countries in these regions following democratization and the move toward more open economies. Although these transformations generated pressure to reform existing welfare systems, economic performance and welfare legacies exerted a more profound influence. The authors show how exclusionary welfare systems and economic crisis in Latin America created incentives to adopt liberal social-policy reforms, while social entitlements from the communist era limited the scope of liberal reforms in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. In East Asia, high growth and permissive fiscal conditions provided opportunities to broaden social entitlements in the new democracies. This book highlights the importance of placing the contemporary effects of democratization and globalization into a broader historical context.

Author : Edward D. Berkowitz,Kim Mcquaid
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015021480051

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Creating the Welfare State by Edward D. Berkowitz,Kim Mcquaid Pdf

Creating the Welfare State investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state in America. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, this important volume employs interdisciplinary techniques to demonstrate how politics, economics, law, and social theory merged over the course of a century of policy formulation and implementation. The authors also draw upon previously unconsulted sources from government warehouses and archives to analyze the operation of early federal social welfare programs such as vocational rehabilitation. Their discussions range from those early programs to modern ones such as cost of living pay adjustments and social security disability benefits. This emphasis on the notion of the continuing development of welfare programs is a significant factor in the welfare state controversies--a factor often ignored by other historians and writers.

Author : Richard J. Walter
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271036328

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Peru and the United States, 1960-1975 by Richard J. Walter Pdf

"Examines relations between Peru and the United States for the period 1960-1975. Focuses on the roles of both nations' ambassadors in trying to deal with the difficult foreign policy issues that arose in these years"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ashton L. Hawk,Marcus M. Larsen,Michael J. Leiblein,Jeffrey J. Reuer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802201482

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Strategy in a Turbulent Era by Ashton L. Hawk,Marcus M. Larsen,Michael J. Leiblein,Jeffrey J. Reuer Pdf

Offering a practical and phenomenon-driven perspective, Strategy in a Turbulent Era expertly analyses questions relating to strategy in light of different forms of turbulence. From the global COVID-19 pandemic outbreak to the escalation in number and far reaching implications of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies, this timely book explores how recent sources of turbulence are rapidly transforming the nature and dynamics of global competition.

Author : Annelise Orleck,Lisa Gayle Hazirjian
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820341842

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The War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck,Lisa Gayle Hazirjian Pdf

Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it. Examining the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a controversial argument that the programs were in many ways a success, reducing poverty rates and weaving a social safety net that has proven as enduring as programs that came out of the New Deal. The War on Poverty also transformed American politics from the grass roots up, mobilizing poor people across the nation. Blacks in crumbling cities, rural whites in Appalachia, Cherokees in Oklahoma, Puerto Ricans in the Bronx, migrant Mexican farmworkers, and Chinese immigrants from New York to California built social programs based on Johnson's vision of a greater, more just society. Contributors to this volume chronicle these vibrant and largely unknown histories while not shying away from the flaws and failings of the movement--including inadequate funding, co-optation by local political elites, and blindness to the reality that mothers and their children made up most of the poor. In the twenty-first century, when one in seven Americans receives food stamps and community health centers are the largest primary care system in the nation, the War on Poverty is as relevant as ever. This book helps us to understand the turbulent era out of which it emerged and why it remains so controversial to this day.

Author : J. Matthew Gallman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860717

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Receiving Erin's Children by J. Matthew Gallman Pdf

Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban history, Matthew Gallman looks at how two cities, Philadelphia and Liverpool, met the challenges raised by the influx of immigrants. Gallman examines how citizens and policymakers in Philadelphia and Liverpool dealt with such issues as poverty, disease, poor sanitation, crime, sectarian conflict, and juvenile delinquency. By considering how two cities of comparable population and dimensions responded to similar challenges, he sheds new light on familiar questions about distinctive national characteristics--without resorting to claims of "American exceptionalism." In this critical era of urban development, English and American cities often evolved in analogous ways, Gallman notes. But certain crucial differences--in location, material conditions, governmental structures, and voluntaristic traditions, for example--inspired varying approaches to urban problem solving on either side of the Atlantic.