Comparative welfare state politics: development, opportunities, and reform

Machine generated contents note: Introduction. The political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform; 1. The welfare state: dynamic development, crisis, resilience, and change; 2. The logics of the welfare state: why did we need a welfare state in the first place and how did we get it?...

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Hauptverfasser: Kersbergen, Kees van 1958- (VerfasserIn), Vis, Barbara (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:Machine generated contents note: Introduction. The political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform; 1. The welfare state: dynamic development, crisis, resilience, and change; 2. The logics of the welfare state: why did we need a welfare state in the first place and how did we get it?; 3. Welfare state regimes: why did we get different worlds of welfare and do we still have them?; 4. What do welfare states actually do? How welfare states protect against social risks and fight poverty and inequality; 5. Toward an open functional approach to welfare state reform; 6. Why do we need to reform the welfare state?: part I. globalization as a functional pressure coming from the outside; 7. Why do we need to reform the welfare state: part II. post-industrial society and the functional pressures to reform coming from within; 8. Why do politicians and governments pursue risky reforms?; 9. Can and will the welfare state survive the great recession?
"Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform in advanced democracies"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 245 S.) graph. Darst.
ISBN:9781139021852
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139021852

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