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El. knyga: Welfare and the Welfare State: Central Issues Now and in the Future

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(Roskilde University, Denmark)
  • Formatas: 294 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 11-Dec-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781000764659
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  • Formatas: 294 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 11-Dec-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781000764659
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The welfare state is still very much central in people’s everyday lives. The welfare state is at the same time contested and debated, and has often been argued to be in a crisis not only in the wake of the financial crisis. Welfare and welfare states used to be a national issue and prerogative. Today welfare and welfare states are influenced by national as well as regional and global decisions. However, nation states play a decisive role influenced by national preferences and ideas, and, in recent years, populism and welfare chauvinism.

This book provides an overview of the central concepts through the lenses of the state, market and civil society. It also provides the reader with knowledge on distribution in societies and how this interacts and influences different groups and their position in society. There are also chapters dealing specifically with central sectors in the welfare states such as health, long-term care and education. The book uses a comparative approach as this better enables one to understand one’s own country's welfare, as well as helping to underline and see the linkages to the impact of global and regional issues on welfare states and their development. Finally, the book presents challenges and future perspectives for welfare states and their development.

The book’s focus on core concepts and the variety of international welfare state regimes and mechanisms for delivering social policy provides a much-needed introduction to the rapidly changing concept of welfare for students on social policy, social studies, sociology and politics courses.

List of figures
x
List of tables
xi
List of boxes
xiii
Foreword xv
PART I Central concepts
1(60)
1 Introduction
3(11)
1.1 What are the central issues?
3(2)
1.2 Overview of the book
5(8)
References
13(1)
2 What is welfare? Some basic concepts
14(17)
2.1 Introduction
14(1)
2.2 What is welfare?
15(3)
2.3 Some basic principles, concepts and policies
18(4)
2.4 State, market and civil society
22(1)
2.5 Quality of life -- new ways of measuring well-being
23(4)
2.6 Balancing perspectives of equity and efficiency
27(1)
2.7 Summing up
28(1)
Notes
29(1)
References
29(2)
3 Welfare states and welfare regimes
31(30)
3.1 Introduction
32(1)
3.2 What is the welfare state?
32(5)
3.3 Historical development
37(3)
3.4 What are welfare regimes?
40(4)
3.5 Welfare regimes and welfare typologies
44(1)
3.6 Possible drivers for change
45(6)
3.7 Emergent welfare regimes
51(1)
3.8 Social investment and other perspectives
52(5)
3.9 Summing up
57(1)
Notes
58(1)
References
58(3)
PART II State, market and civil society
61(88)
4 The state
63(16)
4.1 Introduction
63(2)
4.2 Public, fiscal and occupational welfare
65(2)
4.3 The level and composition of state welfare in different types of welfare regimes
67(4)
4.4 Fiscal and occupational welfare and their impact
71(3)
4.5 Choice and equality/inequality
74(2)
4.6 Summing up
76(1)
Notes
77(1)
References
77(2)
5 Financing the public sector
79(16)
5.1 Introduction
79(1)
5.2 Principles of how to finance the public sector
80(10)
5.3 Regional and global economic development and sustainable financing
90(1)
5.4 Impact of demography on financing the welfare state
91(1)
5.5 Summing-up
92(1)
References
93(2)
6 The role of the market
95(11)
6.1 Introduction
95(1)
6.2 Market and government failure
96(5)
6.3 The financial market - a case history
101(1)
6.4 Marketisation of welfare provision
102(2)
6.5 Summing-up
104(1)
Note
105(1)
References
105(1)
7 The labour market: employment and unemployment
106(24)
7.1 Introduction
107(1)
7.2 What is the labour market?
107(7)
7.3 Consequences of being or not being in the labour market
114(2)
7.4 Active labour market policy -- stick or carrot?
116(3)
7.5 Changes in industrial relations
119(2)
7.6 Labour market regimes -- new structuring of societies
121(2)
7.7 Global and regional impact -- free movement of workers
123(1)
7.8 Fourth industrial revolution -- consequence for the labour market
124(3)
7.9 Summing up
127(1)
Note
127(1)
References
127(3)
8 Civil society
130(19)
8.1 Introduction
130(1)
8.2 The welfare mix
131(5)
8.3 Work-family balance
136(7)
8.4 Social capital
143(4)
8.5 Summing up
147(1)
References
147(2)
PART III Equality and specific groups' positions in the welfare states
149(40)
9 Poverty, equality and inequality
151(19)
9.1 Introduction
151(1)
9.2 Theoretical understandings of equality and inequality
152(4)
9.3 Measuring equality/inequality
156(10)
9.4 The welfare state and equality
166(2)
9.5 Summing-up
168(1)
References
168(2)
10 Different groups' positions in welfare states
170(19)
10.1 Introduction
171(2)
10.2 Gender inequality
173(4)
10.3 People with disabilities
177(2)
10.4 Age discrimination
179(2)
10.5 Race and ethnicity
181(2)
10.6 Exclusion/inclusion and policies to combat exclusion
183(2)
10.7 Social inheritance - or the risk of reinforcing outcome generations after generations
185(3)
10.8 Summing up
188(1)
References
188(1)
PART IV Core social policy areas
189(34)
11 Healthcare
191(12)
11.1 Introduction
191(1)
11.2 Central principles for health care systems
192(1)
11.3 Inequality and health care
193(2)
11.4 Cost pressure and the ability to finance health care
195(6)
11.5 Summing up
201(1)
References
201(2)
12 Long-term care
203(9)
12.1 Introduction
203(1)
12.2 Why public involvement?
204(1)
12.3 The demographic pressure
205(2)
12.4 The variation in systems -- an example of interaction state, market and civil society
207(2)
12.5 Consequences for the work-family life balance
209(1)
12.6 Summing-up
210(1)
Note
210(1)
References
210(2)
13 Pensions -- important in old age
212(11)
13.1 Introduction
212(1)
13.2 Principles of pension systems
213(1)
13.3 Changes in pension system
214(3)
13.4 The expected long-term development
217(2)
13.5 Summing up
219(1)
Notes
219(1)
References
219(4)
PART V New ways and international perspectives
223(42)
14 New ways of steering the welfare state
225(14)
14.1 Introduction
225(1)
14.2 What is governance in welfare states?
226(3)
14.3 Decentralisation, devolution -- the changed role of the actors - and possible consequences
229(2)
14.4 Evidence and evaluation as steering instruments
231(3)
14.5 New ways of steering individuals
234(2)
14.6 Welfare technology and social innovation
236(1)
14.7 Summing up
237(1)
References
238(1)
15 The role of the EU and other international organisations in the development of welfare states
239(16)
15.1 Introduction
240(1)
15.2 The role of the EU in relation to welfare state policies
240(6)
15.3 Convergence or divergence in the development of European welfare states
246(2)
15.4 Impact of Europeanisation and globalisation on the welfare state
248(2)
15.5 Other international organisations
250(3)
15.6 Summing up
253(1)
References
253(2)
16 Is there a future for the welfare state?
255(10)
16.1 Introduction
255(1)
16.2 Welfare chauvinistic challenges
256(1)
16.3 European and global challenges
257(2)
16.4 Future legitimacy of the welfare state
259(2)
16.5 Basic income a solution?
261(2)
16.6 Summing-up -- the future
263(1)
Note
263(1)
References
263(2)
Glossary 265(4)
Index 269
Bent Greve is Professor of Welfare State Analysis in the Department of Society and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has published widely on different topics surrounding the welfare state, including technology and the labour market, happiness and social policy, labour market policy, and most recently on populism and the welfare state. He is editor of Social Policy and Administration.
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