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Two Two or three waves of welfare state transformation?
Abstract
This chapter analyses three distinct phases of welfare state reconfiguration: the era of welfare state expansion and class compromise, starting at the end of World War II; the period of welfare retrenchment and neo-liberalism, which took shape in the wake of the oil shocks of mid- to late-1970s; and the more recent epoch since the mid-1990s, in which social investment policy prescriptions took root. It provides us with an understanding of each period as marked by distinctive social policy repertoires, anchored in hegemonic economic theories, designed to respond to both socioeconomic and political contexts and the challenges of the day. The chapter analyses the economic thinking that can be associated with the social investment perspective.
Abstract
This chapter analyses three distinct phases of welfare state reconfiguration: the era of welfare state expansion and class compromise, starting at the end of World War II; the period of welfare retrenchment and neo-liberalism, which took shape in the wake of the oil shocks of mid- to late-1970s; and the more recent epoch since the mid-1990s, in which social investment policy prescriptions took root. It provides us with an understanding of each period as marked by distinctive social policy repertoires, anchored in hegemonic economic theories, designed to respond to both socioeconomic and political contexts and the challenges of the day. The chapter analyses the economic thinking that can be associated with the social investment perspective.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables v
- List of figures vii
- List of acronyms viii
- Notes on contributors x
- Acknowledgements xiv
- Beyond the welfare state as we knew it? 1
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Towards a new social policy paradigm
- Two or three waves of welfare state transformation? 33
- Redesigning citizenship regimes after neoliberalism: moving towards social investment 61
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Mapping the development of social investment policies
- Towards social investment? Patterns of public policy in the OECD world 91
- Social investment or recommodification? Assessing the employment policies of the EU member states 117
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Assessing the social investment policies
- Promoting social investment through work–family policies: which nations do it and why? 153
- Active labour market policy and social investment: a changing relationship 181
- Do social investment policies produce more and better jobs? 205
- Social investment in the globalising learning economy: a European perspective 235
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Meeting the challenges ahead?
- Social investment in the ageing populations of Europe 261
- Aftershock: the post-crisis social investment welfare state in Europe 285
- Climate policy and the social investment approach: towards a European model for sustainable development 309
- From the Lisbon Strategy to EUROPE 2020 333
- Social investment: a paradigm in search of a new economic model and political mobilisation 353
- Index 377
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables v
- List of figures vii
- List of acronyms viii
- Notes on contributors x
- Acknowledgements xiv
- Beyond the welfare state as we knew it? 1
-
Towards a new social policy paradigm
- Two or three waves of welfare state transformation? 33
- Redesigning citizenship regimes after neoliberalism: moving towards social investment 61
-
Mapping the development of social investment policies
- Towards social investment? Patterns of public policy in the OECD world 91
- Social investment or recommodification? Assessing the employment policies of the EU member states 117
-
Assessing the social investment policies
- Promoting social investment through work–family policies: which nations do it and why? 153
- Active labour market policy and social investment: a changing relationship 181
- Do social investment policies produce more and better jobs? 205
- Social investment in the globalising learning economy: a European perspective 235
-
Meeting the challenges ahead?
- Social investment in the ageing populations of Europe 261
- Aftershock: the post-crisis social investment welfare state in Europe 285
- Climate policy and the social investment approach: towards a European model for sustainable development 309
- From the Lisbon Strategy to EUROPE 2020 333
- Social investment: a paradigm in search of a new economic model and political mobilisation 353
- Index 377
