Kees Van Kersbergen

Comparative Welfare State Politics (eBook, PDF)

Development, Opportunities, and Reform

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Welfare state reform occurs in all advanced capitalist democracies, but it does not occur in identical ways, to the same degree or with similar consequences. In Comparative Welfare State Politics, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform by asking 'big' questions. Why did we need a welfare state in the first place? How did we get it? Why did we get different worlds of welfare and do we still have them? What does the welfare state actually do? Why do we need to reform the welfare state? Why is reform so difficult, but why does it nevertheless happen? Can and will the welfare state survive the Great Recession? This book informs the reader comprehensively about the welfare state, while contributing to the ongoing debate on the politics of welfare state reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107595934
• Artikelnr.: 40070734

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?