Social Policy in the Smaller European Union States /

Social Policy in the Smaller European Union States / / ed. by Gary B. Cohen, Ben W. Ansell, Robert Henry Cox, Jane Gingrich.

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In Europe and around the world, social policies and welfare services have faced increasing pressure in recent years as a result of political, economic, and social changes. Just as Europe was a leader in the development of the welfare state and the supportive structures of corporatist politics from t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ansell, Ben W.,
Ashton, Toni,
Bolgani, Iva,
Cheng, Tsung-Mei,
Chinitz, David,
Cohen, Gary B.,
Cox, Robert Henry,
Crivelli, Luca,
Eliason, Scott R.,
Gingrich, Jane,
Hamilton, William,
Heinisch, Reinhard,
Kurzer, Paulette,
Lim, Meng-Kin,
Maarse, Hans,
Meislin, Rachel,
Okma, Kieke G. H.,
Saari, Juho,
Sipilä, Jorma,
Stryker, Robin,
Tenbensel, Tim,
Tranby, Eric,
Watson, Sara,
HerausgeberIn:
Ansell, Ben W.,
Cohen, Gary B.,
Cox, Robert Henry,
Gingrich, Jane,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Contemporary European History ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Social Policy in the Smaller EU States
  • Section I. The Social Investment Agenda: From Ideas to Policy?
  • 1. How Globalization and the European Union are Changing European Welfare States
  • 2. Family Policies, Education, and Female Labor Market Participation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
  • 3. Double Transformation: How to Adjust Institutional Social Policy?
  • 4. The Social Investment State: A New Trend in Social Expenditure or Merely a Popular Political Discourse?
  • Section II. Interest Coalitions, Ideas, and Social Reform
  • 5. Multiple Market Prescriptions: The Diverse Models of Health Care Reform in Sweden
  • 6. Austrian Social Policy Reform in the Era of Integration and Rising Populism
  • 7. Of Firms and Flexibility: The Dynamics of Collective Bargaining Reform in Spain and Portugal
  • Section III. Diverging Institutional Legacies, Ideas, and Social Reform
  • 8. Social Policy Change “Under the Radar Screen”: Health Care Reforms in Seven Small Countries
  • 9. Humboldt Humbled? The Germanic University System in Comparative Perspective
  • 10 Beyond the Welfare State: Consumer Protection and Risk Perceptions in the European Union and Austria
  • Conclusion: Ideas and Social Reform
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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