Western Welfare In Decline

Author : Catherine Kingfisher
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812202472

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Western Welfare in Decline by Catherine Kingfisher Pdf

The feminization of poverty is increasingly recognized as a global phenomenon, affecting women not only in third world countries but also in the West. Taking globalization as its starting point, Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking nations that have implemented welfare restructuring: the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. This restructuring is analyzed in relation to the emergence of neoliberalism, which valorizes the free market, individualism, and a circumscribed role for the state. Contributors to Western Welfare in Decline creatively combine theoretical and empirical analysis, emphasizing the economic and social goals of welfare reforms and the discourses of labor, gendered subjectivity, and the separation of public and private spheres. They document how the neoliberal project of welfare reform interacts with local cultures to create both similar and divergent new cultural formations and identify opportunities for asserting the social rights of poor single mothers who are being denied these rights at the level of the nation-state.

Author : Philipp Sandermann
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847403388

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The End of Welfare as We Know It? by Philipp Sandermann Pdf

During the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research assumes that, in fact, the end of the welfare state has already occurred. The authors of this volume hope to contribute to a clearer understanding of how, where and to what extent welfare state settings really have changed since the 1980s. Their work examines questions of change and continuity while exploring various welfare practices in the Western world.

Author : Francis G. Castles,Stephan Leibfried,Jane Lewis,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191628283

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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State by Francis G. Castles,Stephan Leibfried,Jane Lewis,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.

Author : Lutz Leisering,Stephan Leibfried
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521003520

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Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States by Lutz Leisering,Stephan Leibfried Pdf

Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States suggests the need for a radical re-think of the theoretical and policy approaches to poverty.

Author : Catherine Kingfisher
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782380061

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A Policy Travelogue by Catherine Kingfisher Pdf

An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy élites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light of their own resources and knowledge. Drawing on two analytic frameworks of the contemporary anthropology of policy-translation and assemblage-Kingfisher situates policy as an artifact and architect of cultural meaning, as well as a site of power struggles. All points of engagement with policy are approached as sites of policy production that serve to transform it as well as reproduce it. As such, A Policy Travelogue provides an antidote to theorizations of policy as a-cultural, rational, and straightforwardly technical.

Author : Dani Rodrik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199603336

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The Globalization Paradox by Dani Rodrik Pdf

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy and free trade might not always be advantageous. Where are the pressure points? What could be done about them?Dani Rodrik examines the back-story from its seventeenth-century origins through the milestones of the gold standard, the Bretton Woods Agreement, and the Washington Consensus, to the present day. Although economic globalization has enabled unprecedented levels of prosperity in advanced countries and has been a boon to hundreds of millions of poor workers in China and elsewhere in Asia, it is a concept that rests on shaky pillars, he contends. Its long-term sustainability is not a given.The heart of Rodrik>'s argument is a fundamental 'trilemma': that we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national self-determination, and economic globalization. Give too much power to governments, and you have protectionism. Give markets too much freedom, and you have an unstable world economy with little social and political support from those it is supposed to help. Rodrik argues for smart globalization, not maximum globalization.

Author : Nick Ellison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Romke Jan van der Veen,Mara Yerkes,Peter Achterberg
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089643834

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The Transformation of Solidarity by Romke Jan van der Veen,Mara Yerkes,Peter Achterberg Pdf

De literatuur over welvaartsstaten richt zich vaak op beleidsveranderingsprocessen en de mechanismen die deze veranderingen veroorzaken of tegenwerken. De werkelijke verandering wordt vaak geïnterpreteerd als gevolg van externe crises of als gevolg van de meer geleidelijke beleidsveranderingsprocessen. Dit boek heeft een ander uitgangspunt: de auteurs onderzoeken de bewering dat de sociale en economische veranderingen als gevolg van de overgang naar een postindustriële samenleving de sociale fundamenten van de verzorgingsstaat hebben verzwakt.

Author : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271018615

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Beyond the Welfare State? by Christopher Pierson Pdf

First published in 1991, Beyond the Welfare State? has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition, which draws on the latest theoretical developments and empirical evidence. It remains the most comprehensive and sophisticated guide to the condition of the welfare state in a time of rapid and sometimes bewildering change. The opening chapters offer a scholarly but accessible review of competing interpretations of the historical and contemporary roles of the welfare state. This evaluation, based on the most recent empirical research, gives full weight to feminist, ecological, and "anti-racist" critiques and also develops a clear account of globalization and its contested impact upon existing welfare regimes. The book constructs a distinctive history of the international growth of welfare states and offers a comprehensive account of recent developments from "crisis" to "structural adjustment." The final chapters bring the story right up to date with an assessment of the important changes effected in the 1990s and the prospects for welfare states in the new millennium.

Author : James Bartholomew
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781849549080

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The Welfare of Nations by James Bartholomew Pdf

Why is unemployment so low in Switzerland but so high in Spain? Why is social housing more successful in Singapore than in France? Why do welfare states across the world function so differently to Britain's? The twentieth century experienced an epochal war between capitalism and communism, but the real winner of the conflict, James Bartholomew argues, was welfare statism. The defining form of government of our age, welfare states have spread across the advanced world and are changing the very nature of modern civilisation. In his bestselling book The Welfare State We're In, Bartholomew controversially argued that the British welfare state has done more harm than good. Many people - including Lady Thatcher - responded by saying, 'If that is the case, what should we do about it?' Now, in this hard-hitting and provocative new contribution, Bartholomew sets out to answer that question. Travelling across the globe, from Australia in the east to San Francisco in the west, he investigates what happens elsewhere in the world and considers which welfare models Britain could potentially follow. His search for the best education, healthcare and support services takes him to eleven vastly different countries as he teases out the advantages and weaknesses of other nations' welfare states and delves into crucial issues such as literacy, poverty and inequality. What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And is it too late to stop welfare states permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world?

Author : Catherine Kingfisher
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081221515X

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Women in the American Welfare Trap by Catherine Kingfisher Pdf

Based on field work in Michigan in 1989 and 1990, explores how street-level welfare workers and welfare recipients actively construct their world and its meanings in relation to the social and cultural constraints to which they are subject. The point is to clarify the conditions that encourage the recognition of commonality and those that encourage difference, in order to find ways of promoting a sense of co-membership in the system. Paper edition (unseen), $17.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Nicholas Deakin,Catherine Jones Finer,Bob Matthews
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415262909

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Welfare and the State: The zenith of Western welfare state systems by Nicholas Deakin,Catherine Jones Finer,Bob Matthews Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Bussiere
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 027103887X

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(Dis)Entitling the Poor by Elizabeth Bussiere Pdf

Although focused on the Warren Court, the book explores Western political thought from the seventeenth through late twentieth centuries, draws on American social history from the Age of Jackson through the civil rights era of the 1960s, and utilizes current analytic methods, particularly the "new institutionalism."

Author : Marian van der Klein,Rebecca Jo Plant,Nichole Sanders,Lori R. Weintrob
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454676

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Maternalism Reconsidered by Marian van der Klein,Rebecca Jo Plant,Nichole Sanders,Lori R. Weintrob Pdf

Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary organizations, liberals and conservatives, feminists and anti-feminists – a phenomenon that scholars have since termed 'maternalism'. This volume reassesses maternalism by providing critical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expanding its meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes and cultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed. From Argentina, Brazil and Mexico City to France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Ukraine, the United States and Canada, these case studies offer fresh theoretical and historical perspectives within a transnational and comparative framework. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how maternalist ideologies have been employed by state actors, reformers and poor clients, with myriad political and social ramifications.

Author : Roger Backhouse,Bradley W. Bateman,Tamotsu Nishizawa,Dieter Plehwe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190676681

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Liberalism and the Welfare State by Roger Backhouse,Bradley W. Bateman,Tamotsu Nishizawa,Dieter Plehwe Pdf

Liberalism and the Welfare State investigates the thinking of liberal economists about welfare, focusing on Britain, Germany and Japan, each of which had a different tradition of economic thinking and different institutions for welfare provision.