The Welfare State Reader

Herausgegeben von Pierson, Christopher; Castles, Francis G.; Naumann, Ingela K.

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Produktbeschreibung

The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000. In the third edition, Pierson, Castles and Naumann have comprehensively overhauled the content, bringing it wholly up to date with contemporary discussions about this most crucial area of social and political life.

The book includes seventeen new selections, all reflecting the latest thinking and research in welfare state studies. These readings are organized around contemporary debates, such as the current trajectories of, constraints on and challenges to contemporary welfare regimes, as well as evolving ideas and emergent forms that constitute the future of welfare. In particular, new readings focus on issues such as ageing populations and low fertility, climate change and global financial uncertainty, and nascent 'politics of happiness'. As in previous editions, the volume begins with a collection of readings that provide a grounding in core approaches to welfare, and each section is set in context by a new editorial introduction.
As well as bringing together classic debates, The Welfare State Reader represents an invaluable guide to what is happening at the cutting edge of welfare research, giving the reader an unrivalled overview of debates surrounding the welfare state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780745663692
• ISBN-10: 0745663699
• Artikelnr.: 39045365

Autorenporträt

Christopher Pierson is professor of politics at the University of Nottingham, UK, and lead editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. He is author of Beyond the Welfare State? 3rd edition (Polity, 2006). Francis G. Castles is professor emeritus of social and public policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Ingela K. Naumann is lecturer in social policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction to the Third Edition PART I - APPROACHES TO WELFARE
The First Welfare State? Thomas Paine Section 1: 'Classical' The Welfare
State in Historical Perspective, Asa Briggs Citizenship and Social Class,
T.H. Marshall Universalism versus Selection, Richard Titmuss Section 2:
Perspectives on the Left What is Social Justice? Commission on Social
Justice Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State, Claus Offe Section
3: Responses from the Right The Meaning of the Welfare State, Friedrich
Hayek The Two Wars against Poverty, Charles Murray The New Politics of the
New Poverty, Lawrence M. Mead Section 4: Feminism The Patriarchal Welfare
State, Carole Pateman The Welfare State and Women Power, Helga Maria Hernes
PART II - WELFARE REGIMES UNDER THREAT Section 1: Trajectories Three Worlds
of Welfare Capitalism, Gøsta Esping-Andersen Religion and the Western
Welfare State, Philip Manow and Kees van Kersbergen The New Politics of the
Welfare State, Paul Pierson Section 2: Constraints Globalization, the
Welfare State and Inequality, Duane Swank The Europeanization of Social
Protection: Domestic Impacts and National Responses, Jon Kvist and Juho
Saari Explaining Convergence of OECD Welfare States: a Conditional
Approach, Carina Schmitt and Peter Starke Breaking with the Past? Why the
Global Financial Crisis led to Austerity Policies but not to Modernization
of the Welfare State, Klaus Armingeon Section 3: Challenges Ageing and the
Welfare State: Securing Sustainability, Volker Meier and Martin Werding
Very Low Fertility: Consequences, Causes and Policy Approaches, Peter
McDonald Migration, Minorities and Welfare States, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and
Stephen Castles The Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage
against New Social Risks in Mature Welfare States, Giuliano Bonoli PART III
- EMERGING IDEAS, EMERGENT FORMS Section 1: Emerging Ideas The Big Society:
A New Policy Environment for the Third Sector? Peter Alcock Diffusing Ideas
for After Neoliberalism: The Social Investment Perspective in Europe and
Latin America, Jane Jenson The Governance of Economic Uncertainty: Beyond
the 'New Social Risk' Analysis, Colin Crouch and Maarten Keune How Climate
Change will Shape the Social Policy Framework, Zahir Sadeque Basic Income
and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare, State Phillippe van Parijs Section 2:
Emergent Forms What Adult Worker Model? A Critical Look at Recent Social
Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective, Mary Daly
Beyond Modernization? Social Care and the Transformation of Welfare
Governance, Janet Newman, Caroline Glendinning and Michael Hughes Assessing
the Welfare State: The Politics of Happiness, Alexander Pacek and Benjamin
Radcliff Europe's Post-Democratic Era, Jürgen Habermas