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Compensation education, housing, social welfare, employment assistance and superannuation.
Author : Jonathan Boston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Compensation education, housing, social welfare, employment assistance and superannuation.
Author : Monika Bütler
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
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Author : Hans-Werner Sinn
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Argues that the high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country's welfare system is designed. This book reviews the public debate on labour market reforms, and discusses the first set of reforms that have been enacted.
Author : José Antonio Ocampo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231546165
The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned twenty-first-century welfare state. The Welfare State Revisited takes on major debates about social well-being, considering the merits of universal versus targeted policies; responses to market failures; integrating welfare and economic development; and how welfare states around the world have changed since the neoliberal turn. Contributors offer prescriptions for how to respond to the demands generated by demographic changes, the changing role of the family, new features of labor markets, the challenges of aging societies, and technological change. They consider how strengthening or weakening social protection programs affects inequality, suggesting ways to facilitate the spread of effective welfare states throughout the world, especially in developing countries. Presenting new insights into the functions the welfare state can fulfill and how to design a more efficient and more equitable system, The Welfare State Revisited is essential reading on the most discussed issues in social welfare today.
Author : Sarah Heal
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Budget
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Author : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271018614
First published in 1991, Beyond the Welfare State? has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition, which draws on the latest theoretical developments and empirical evidence. It remains the most comprehensive and sophisticated guide to the condition of the welfare state in a time of rapid and sometimes bewildering change. The opening chapters offer a scholarly but accessible review of competing interpretations of the historical and contemporary roles of the welfare state. This evaluation, based on the most recent empirical research, gives full weight to feminist, ecological, and "anti-racist" critiques and also develops a clear account of globalization and its contested impact upon existing welfare regimes. The book constructs a distinctive history of the international growth of welfare states and offers a comprehensive account of recent developments from "crisis" to "structural adjustment." The final chapters bring the story right up to date with an assessment of the important changes effected in the 1990s and the prospects for welfare states in the new millennium.
Author : Edward D. Berkowitz
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
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Author : Neil Gilbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019517657X
Same time, the glaring systemic deficiencies of extant welfare systems-and the psychological toll of welfare dependency--became increasingly apparent, even to welfare's supporters.
Author : Stein Ringen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 135147670X
The Possibility of Politics explores the power of political reform, specifically reform of the modern welfare state. Can reform be effective if limited to cautious and piecemeal interventions that avoid radicalism and revolution? Can it also avoid unwanted consequences? Will the welfare state survive in the future?Stein Ringen views the welfare state as a large-scale experiment in political reform. To ask if the welfare state works is to ask if political reform is possible at all. By its nature, the welfare state is reform on a grand scale, for it attempts to change the circumstances individuals and families live under without changing and disrupting society itself. But is it realistic to believe a population can get together, set goals and then try to meet these goals through collective actions, specifically public policies, without causing unintended consequences and destroying the state in the process? The welfare state attempts, idealistically, to redistribute welfare without reshaping the economic processes that cause inequities in the first place. Ringen considers how well redistribution has met the test in terms of political legitimacy, its intended effects on poverty and inequality, as well as its undesired and unintended effects on economic efficiency and the quality of private life. Ultimately, does the welfare state work? Further, is the welfare state a good thing?In considering these questions, The Possibility of Politics should be of particular value to academics and advanced students interested in political theory, public economics, social administration, and political sociology.Stein Ringen is professor of sociology and social policy at Oxford University and a Fellow of Green College. He teaches social and political theory and research methodology for graduates in social policy, sociology, politics, economic and social history and other subjects.
Author : Norman Johnson
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870236181
Focusing on welfare states in capitalist societies, The Welfare State in Transition carries forward the debate on pluralism, identifying and discussing the problems involved in transferring responsibility for welfare services from the state to the other three sectors.