What future for social security? : : Debates and reforms in national and cross-national perspective /

What future for social security? : : Debates and reforms in national and cross-national perspective / / Jochen Clasen.

It is widely assumed today that the 'welfare state' is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social security benefits is being subject in most developed countries. In this book, fifteen authorities from nine different countries - the UK, the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
VerfasserIn:
Clasen, Jochen,
MitwirkendeR:
Andersen, Jorgen Gool,
Bolderson, Helen,
Castles, Francis G.,
Clasen, Jochen,
Evans, Martin,
Hinrichs, Karl,
Kangas, Olli,
Kvist, Jon,
Mabbett, Deborah,
Moreno, Luis,
Oorschot, Wim van,
Orloff, Ann Shola,
Overbye, Einar,
Palier, Bruno,
Wright, Sharon,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Social Security in the New Millennium
  • Debates
  • Rising Tides and Rusty Boats: Economic position of the poor in 1985-1995
  • Popular Support for Social Security. A sociological perspective’
  • Non-Discriminating Social Policy? Policy scenarios for meeting needs without categorisation
  • Equality, Employment, and State Social Policies: a gendered perspective
  • Europeanisation and Decentralisation of Welfare ‘Safety Nets’
  • Reforms
  • Reforms in Theoretical Perspective
  • Beyond Retrenchment: four problems in current welfare state research and one suggestion how to overcome them
  • Change without Challenge? Welfare states, social construction of challenge and dynamics of path dependency
  • Reforming Pension Systems
  • Public Expenditure and Population Ageing: why families of nations are different
  • Ageing and Public Pension Reforms in Western Europe and North America: patterns and politics
  • The Redistributional Impact of a World Bank ‘Pension Regime’
  • Activation Reforms
  • Activating Welfare States. How social policies can promote employment
  • Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: European and American approaches from a British perspective
  • Activating the Unemployed: the street-level implementation of UK policy
  • Bibliography

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