From the Manpower Revolution to the Activation Paradigm : : Explaining Institutional Continuity and Change in an Integrating Europe / / J. Timo Weishaupt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Weishaupt, J. Timo,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Changing Welfare States
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Boxes, Figures and Tables --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgements --; I. Introduction --; II. Theoretical Approach --; Part I. Origin and Crisis of European Labour Market Policy Regimes --; III. Origin of European Labour Market Policy Regimes and the Manpower Revolution --; IV. Labour Market Policy Regimes in Crisis: Divergence into Three Distinct Clusters --; Part II The Emergence of the Activation Paradigm --; V. The OECD's Repeated Reassessments and the EU as a Proliferator of New Ideas --; VI. The Emergence of the Activation Paradigm: Analysing Institutional Hybridisation --; VII. Explaining Transformative Change in Two Crucial Cases --; VIII. Conclusion --; List of Interviews and Personal Conversations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; CHANGING WELFARE STATES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048513055; 9783110700671; 9783110606515; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048513055?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: Open Access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: J. Timo Weishaupt.

This illuminating book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe in three phases: a manpower revolution during the 1960s and 1970s; a phase of international disagreement about the causes of and remedies for unemployment, which triggered a variety of policy responses in the late 1970s and 1980s; and, finally, the emergence of an activation paradigm in the late 1990s, the influence of which continues to reverberate today. J. Timo Weishaupt contends that the evolution of labor market policy is determined not only by historical trajectories or coalitional struggles, but also by policy makers' changing normative and cognitive beliefs. Including case studies of Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, this study will be of value to anyone interested in labor market policy and its governance.