Beyond The Welfare State
Download Beyond The Welfare State full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Beyond The Welfare State ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Beyond the Welfare State
Author | : Christopher Pierson |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0271018615 |
Download Beyond the Welfare State Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
First published in 1991, Beyond the Welfare State? has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition, which draws on the latest theoretical developments and empirical evidence. It remains the most comprehensive and sophisticated guide to the condition of the welfare state in a time of rapid and sometimes bewildering change. The opening chapters offer a scholarly but accessible review of competing interpretations of the historical and contemporary roles of the welfare state. This evaluation, based on the most recent empirical research, gives full weight to feminist, ecological, and "anti-racist" critiques and also develops a clear account of globalization and its contested impact upon existing welfare regimes. The book constructs a distinctive history of the international growth of welfare states and offers a comprehensive account of recent developments from "crisis" to "structural adjustment." The final chapters bring the story right up to date with an assessment of the important changes effected in the 1990s and the prospects for welfare states in the new millennium.
Beyond the Welfare State
Author | : Gunnar Myrdal |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Economic policy |
ISBN | : OCLC:3298936 |
Download Beyond the Welfare State Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Beyond Welfare State Models
Author | : Pauli Kettunen,Klaus Petersen |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781849809603 |
Download Beyond Welfare State Models Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Welfare state models have for decades been the gold standard of welfare state research. Beyond Welfare State Models escapes the straightjacket of conventional welfare state models and challenges the existing literature in two ways. Firstly the contributors argue that the standard typologies have omitted important aspects of welfare state development. Secondly, the work develops and underlines the importance of a more fluid transnational conceptualisation. As this book shows, welfare states are not created in national isolation but are heavily influenced by transnational economic, political and cultural interdependencies. The authors illustrate these important points of criticism with their studies on the transnational history of social policy, religion and the welfare state, Nordic cooperation within the fields of social policy and marriage law, and the transnational contexts of national family policies. This fascinating work contributes to the understanding of the current changes of welfare states by discussing the relationship between globalized capitalism and social political regulations and by arguing that transnational transformations importantly take place within and between nation states.
Welfare Beyond the Welfare State
Author | : Felix Behling |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2018-01-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783319652238 |
Download Welfare Beyond the Welfare State Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that companies are an integral part of welfare systems with surprisingly few differences between the UK and Germany. Maintaining that employee welfare is a key feature of the modern employment relationship, Behling shows how the welfare programme supported industrialisation in the 19th century by cementing the standard employment model of the Fifties and Sixties, as well as how it revolves around corporate social responsibility today. The result is an innovative exploration into the changing nature of employment relationships, contemporary welfare systems, and the co-evolutionary - rather than categorical - development of economic and political institutions. An engaging and well-researched text, this book will hold special appeal to scholars of social policy, welfare politics, as well as anyone interested in the role of the state in people’s working lives.
The Welfare State and Beyond
Author | : Gunnar Heckscher |
Publsiher | : Nordic Series |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0816609330 |
Download The Welfare State and Beyond Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Welfare State and Beyond was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The welfare state emerged in a number of industrialized countries after the First World War as a middle ground between capitalism and socialism. The aim of architects of the welfare state was to abolish the injustices and hardships that accompanied capitalism and to do so without wholesale social or economic revolution. Establishment of the welfare state created something close to euphoria among many observers; it was, it seemed, the answer to many, if not all, troubling social questions. But it eventually became obvious that this type of society was not immune to problems. In The Welfare State and Beyond Gunnar Heckscher examines four Nordic countries--Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden--not to either criticize or defend the welfare state but to shed some light on a number of questions: Has the welfare state achieved what it attempted? Are the results generally held to be satisfactory? What important problems remain unsolved and what types of solutions have been proposed? Although Heckscher has been associated with the Conservative party in Sweden, his objective, clear-eyed analysis cites both the accomplishments of the welfare state and the troubling problems that still await resolution.
Reforming the Welfare State
Author | : Richard B. Freeman,Birgitta Swedenborg,Robert H. Topel |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226261911 |
Download Reforming the Welfare State Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Over the course of the twentieth century, Sweden carried out one of the most ambitious experiments by a capitalist market economy in developing a large and active welfare state. Sweden's generous social programs and the economic equality they fostered became an example for other countries to emulate. Of late, Sweden has also been much discussed as a model of how to deal with financial and economic crisis, due to the country's recovery from a banking crisis in the mid-1990s. At that time economists heatedly debated whether the welfare state caused Sweden's crisis and should be reformed—a debate with clear parallels to current concerns over capitalism. Bringing together leading economists, Reforming the Welfare State examines Sweden's policies in response to the mid-1990s crisis and the implications for the subsequent recovery. Among the issues investigated are the way changes in the labor market, tax and benefit policies, local government policy, industrial structure, and international trade affected Sweden's recovery. The way that Sweden addressed its economic challenges provides valuable insight into the viability of large welfare states, and more broadly, into the way modern economies deal with crisis.
Trust Beyond Borders
Author | : Markus M. L. Crepaz |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472069764 |
Download Trust Beyond Borders Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How immigration influences popular concepts of citizenship and civic trust
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Author | : Nils Edling |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781789201253 |
Download The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In discussions of economics, governance, and society in the Nordic countries, “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical concept. However, there has been much less scholarly energy devoted to historicizing this idea beyond its postwar emergence. In this volume, specialists from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland chronicle the historical trajectory of “the welfare state,” tracing the variable ways in which it has been interpreted, valued, and challenged over time. Each case study generates valuable historical insights into not only the history of Northern Europe, but also the welfare state itself as both a phenomenon and a concept.