Ideas and welfare state reform in Western Europe / edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby.
The welfare state is a distinctively European invention, central to the success of Europe in balancing competitive capitalism with social inclusion. Social policies across Europe are now being transformed to meet the demands of globalization, population aging, changing labour markets and the new eco...
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Table of Contents:
- Ideas and policy change / Peter Taylor-Gooby
- Paradigm shifts, power resources and labour market reform / Peter Taylor-Gooby
- Policy paradigms and long-term care : convergence or continuing difference? / Virpi Timonen
- The myth of an adult worker society : new policy discourses in European welfare states / Trine P. Larsen
- Changing ideas on pensions : accounting for differences in the spread of the multipillar paradigm in five EU social insurance countries / Frank Bönker
- Towards activation? : social assistance reforms and discourses / Andreas Aust, Ana Arriba
- Current employment policy paradigms in the UK, Sweden and Germany / Johannes Kananen
- The Europeanisation of welfare : paradigm shifts and social policy reforms / Luis Moreno, Bruno Palier.