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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.

Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
ANA ARRIBA Postdoctoral Researcher with the Spanish National Research Council (UPC-CSIS), Madrid, Spain ANDREAS AUST self-employed Social Scientist FRANK BÖNKER Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) and Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies, Germany JOHANNES KANANEN Research Assistant on project Welfare Reform and the Management of Societal Change, University of Kent, UK TRINE P. LARSEN Research Assistant on project Welfare Reform and the Management of Societal change, University of Kent, UK LUIS MORENO Senior Research Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, Madrid, Spain BRUNO PALIER CNRS Researcher in Centre d'Études de la Vie Politique Française, Paris, France VIRPI TIMONEN Lecturer in Social Policy and Ageing at the Department of Social Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Rezensionen
'[A] good and enjoyable read...[,] should certainly be considered by anyone interested in welfare reform, ideas, discourses and policy paradigms in Western Europe.' - Social Policy

'This book makes a worthwhile contribution to the debate on the role of ideas in welfare state change...' - Julia S. O'Connor, International Journal of Social Welfare

'...an exposition of an extensive and important piece of research carried out within a rigorously comparative methodology and with carefully developed accounts of its findings.' - Robert Sykes, Social Policy& Administration