The changing face of welfare : : Consequences and outcomes from a citizenship perspective / / ed. by Jørgen Goul Andersen, Anne-Marie Guillemard, Per H. Jensen, Birgit Pfau-Effinger.

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• MitwirkendeR: Andersen, Jørgen Goul,; Barbier, Jean-Claude,; Born, Asmund W.,; Calloni, Marina,; Guillemard, Anne-Marie,; Halvorsen, Rune,; Jensen, Per H.,; Larsen, Jørgen Elm,; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit,; Saurama, Laura,; Siim, Birte,; Sinfield, Adrian,; Taylor, Philip,; Walker, Alan,
• HerausgeberIn: Goul Andersen, Jørgen,; Guillemard, Anne-Marie,; Jensen, Per H.,; Pfau-Effinger, Birgit,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe. The book applies a dynamic and change oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding social change. Using citizenship as a focus, several dimensions of change are analysed simultaneously: changes in the discipline of social policy itself; the changing character of social problems; changes in social policy and citizenship; and the emergence of new forms of social integration. The book also speculates on how different dimensions of change are interlinked.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Preface -- Glossary -- Notes on contributors -- ‘Active’ citizenship: the new face of welfare -- The goals of social policy: context and change -- Which way for the European social model: minimum standards or social quality? -- The advent of a flexible life course and the reconfigurations of welfare -- Citizenship, unemployment and welfare policy -- Paradoxes of democracy: the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion -- Citizenship and the activation of social protection: a comparative approach -- The active society and activation policy: ideologies, contexts and effects -- Individualising citizenship -- Gender equality, citizenship and welfare state restructuring -- New forms of citizenship and social integration in European societies -- The outcomes of early retirement in Nordic countries -- Early exit from the labour market, social exclusion and marginalisation in the UK -- The emergence of social movements by social security claimants -- Conclusion: policy change, welfare regimes and active citizenship -- Index