The Survival of the European Welfare State (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kuhnle, Stein

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Crisis'. 'Breakdown'. 'Dismantlement.' Since the 1970's, these have become the catchphrases used to describe the condition of the welfare states in Europe, in academic and media analyses alike. This book provides an alternative, more optimistic interpretation. It aims to increase both theoretical understanding and empirical knowledge of recent welfare reforms in areas including Spain, Denmark, the UK, Germany and the EU as a whole. An essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in the welfare state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134614639
• Artikelnr.: 47888224

Autorenporträt

Stein Kuhnle is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has written extensively and published in many languages on comparative welfare state development in Scandinavia and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: European welfare states in perspective 1. Introduction: growth,
adjustments and survival of European welfare states Stein Kuhnle and Matti
Alestalo 2. The declining resistance of welfare states to change? Kees Van
Kersbergen Part II: National welfare state reforms in the 1990s:
comparative and case studies 3. Nordic welfare states in the 1990s:
institutional stability, signs of divergence P aring;l Eitrheim and Stein
Kuhnle 4. The Finnish welfare state in the 1990s: a long-term perspective
Matti Alestalo 5. Welfare crisis and beyond: Danish welfare policies in the
1980s and 1990s J oslash;rgen Goul Andersen 6. Exploring the sustainable
limits of public expenditure in the British welfare state Richard Parry 7.
Welfare without work? Divergent experiences of reform in Germany and the
Netherlands Anton Hemerijck, Philip Manow and Kees Van Kersbergen 8.
Implementing major welfare state reforms: a comparison of France and
Switzerland - a new-institutionalist approach Fran ccedil;ois-Xavier
Merrien and Giuliano Bonoli 9. The Spanish development of Southern European
welfare Luis Moreno 10. Reconstructing the welfare state in Southern Europe
Maurizio Ferrera Part III: Towards consolidated European welfare states?
11. The treaty on European Union and its revision: sea change or empty
shell for European social policies? Gerda Falkner 12. Models for Europe?
The lessons of other institutional designs Francis G. Castles 13. The
future of the universal welfare state: an institutional approach Bo
Rothstein 14. European welfare lessons of the 1990s Stein Kuhnle