Kees Van Kersbergen, Barbara Vis

Comparative Welfare State Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform in advanced democracies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780521183710
• ISBN-10: 0521183715
• Artikelnr.: 39633138

Autorenporträt

Kees van Kersbergen is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science and Government at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The political opportunities and constraints of welfare state
reform; 1. The welfare state: dynamic development, crisis, resilience, and
change; 2. The logics of the welfare state: why did we need a welfare state
in the first place and how did we get it?; 3. Welfare state regimes: why
did we get different worlds of welfare and do we still have them?; 4. What
do welfare states actually do? How welfare states protect against social
risks and fight poverty and inequality; 5. Toward an open functional
approach to welfare state reform; 6. Why do we need to reform the welfare
state?: Part I. Globalization as a functional pressure coming from the
outside; 7. Why do we need to reform the welfare state: Part II.
Post-industrial society and the functional pressures to reform coming from
within; 8. Why do politicians and governments pursue risky reforms?; 9. Can
and will the welfare state survive the great recession?