A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? write by Bruno Palier. This book was released on 2010. A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bruno Palier is CNRS Researcher at Sciences Po Paris. --
The Politics of the New Welfare State
The Politics of the New Welfare State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of the New Welfare State write by Giuliano Bonoli. This book was released on 2012-10-04. The Politics of the New Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Politics of the New Welfare State the main reforms in work and welfare are summarized and analyzed to provide up-dated evidence of policy change and its main determinants to policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders interested in the field.
When Europe meets Bismarck
When Europe meets Bismarck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Europe meets Bismarck write by Thomas Kostera. This book was released on 2019-05-03. When Europe meets Bismarck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens when the European Union sets new rules for the provision of cross-border healthcare services that once were conceived for the population living on the national territory ? This books presents how new rules on the provision of cross-border healthcare in the European Union have the potential of destabilizing national welfare boundaries. A book of political science that takes Austria, a prototypical Bismarckian healthcare system, as an example, and aims at answering questions by looking at how actors navigate between national institutional constraints and European opportunities. EXTRAIT More than 30 years ago, the social security systems of OECD states were diagnosed to be in crisis. This crisis heralded in the end of the “Golden Age” of the national welfare state. The European OECD states, which were also part of the European Community, all witnessed rising unemployment in the wake of the oil crises, and as a result of economic openness to world markets and rising competition of labor costs, Keynesian economic policies of deficit spending became unavailable as an option to revive the economy. Not only did external processes of globalization demand adaptations of the welfare states, but also internal factors such as the rising age of populations and the change of family patterns questioned whether European welfare states were still capable of delivering for national populations, and how classical branches of the welfare state such as unemployment insurance, pension systems and healthcare systems should be adapted to meet these new challenges (Esping-Andersen, 1996). Along with this crisis diagnosis of the welfare state in general, healthcare systems have become the center of governments’ attention since the 1980s, as spending on health policies has increased while the number people contributing to the social security schemes has decreased due to rising unemployment and slow economic growth. Insofar, healthcare mirrors the challenges that welfare states face in general.
Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction
Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction write by Bea Cantillon. This book was released on 2014. Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disappointing poverty trends suggest limitations to employment-centred welfare reform and downward pressures on the redistributive capacity of welfare states. Innovative empirical analyses of the links between poverty, labour market participation and social redistribution are presented. The observations are linked with a broader perspective on the socio-economic, demographic and paradigmatic evolutions in contemporary welfare states.
Switzerland in Europe
Switzerland in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Switzerland in Europe write by Christine Trampusch. This book was released on 2011-03-14. Switzerland in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While Switzerland is well known for its specific political institutions, such as direct democracy, federalism and neutrality, or for its banking secrecy, its socio-economic institutions, which decisively contributed to its prosperity, remain relatively unexplored. This book gives the first systematic overview of Swiss political economy in comparative perspectives. Divided into four sections, the first offers an introduction to Swiss political economy, its major political institutions and Switzerland’ relationship to the EU. The remaining three sections provide case studies on different parts of the political economy and policy fields. The case studies with in part two and three focus on economic actors, major socio-economic institutions addressing corporate governance, finance, labour market, skills and training. Part four addresses social and economic policies, including welfare, liberalization and economic regulatory reforms. Switzerland in Europe also offers several insights into important literature in comparative political economy: the varieties of capitalism, small states, institutional change and patterns of democracy. This will be of interest students and scholars of comparative politics, political economy, Switzerland, small states and European Studies.
