Aging and the Welfare-state Crisis - 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 Aging and the Welfare-state Crisis write by Anne Marie Guillemard. This book was released on 2000. Aging and the Welfare-state Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book brings an innovative conceptual framework of analysis that can be transferred to other areas of social politics or public policies at large."--BOOK JACKET.
Old Age and the Welfare State
Old Age and the 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 Old Age and the Welfare State write by Anne Marie Guillemard. This book was released on 1983. Old Age and the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The modern welfare state is above all a welfare state for the elderly. An overwhelming proportion of its services and benefits go to them. The current crisis of the welfare state is also, therefore, a crisis of policy concerned with the aged. The essays in this volume examine not only interventions by governments on behalf of the old, but the very basis and history of the welfare state itself. From a variety of perspectives ranging from structural functionalism to neomarxism, they examine old age policy in six advanced industrial nations -- the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, West Germany, and France. The essays in Part One deal with the process of making public policy on old age and changes in it during the current economic crisis. Contributions in the second part examine the impact of existing policies on older people. The focus of the essays on social, economic, and political aspects amounts to a new approach in gerontology that has been called by some the political economy of ageing. This book is unique in providing research on the relationship between old age policy and the larger class structure, economy, and state apparatus of more than one country. It will become a classic in the field, and an example of how sociology can be relevant to deal with our current social and economic crisis.' -- "Manuel Castells, University of California at Berkeley"
The Future of the Welfare State
The Future of the 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 Future of the Welfare State write by Francis G. Castles. This book was released on 2004-07-08. The Future of the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by one of the world's leading policy researchers, this book seeks to assess the threat posed to modern welfare states by globalization and demographic change. Using empirical methods, and bringing together insights from across the social sciences, Castles interrogates a range of theories suggesting that the welfare state is in crisis. Systematically using data for 21 advanced OECD nations, he distinguishes crisis myths from crisis realities, locating, in the process, likely trajectories of welfare state development in coming decades. The findings of this book confront many of the basic assumptions of contemporary scholarship. Economic globalization has not led to a 'race to the bottom'. Analogous processes within the European Community have not led to a 'downward harmonization' of social spending. There is no 'new politics of the welfare state', with the Left still outspending the Right. Over the past two decades, spending has been increasing and converging across the OECD. Rather than being in a state of crisis, western welfare states have achieved a steady state. The supposed impact of population ageing on social welfare budgets also turns out to be myth, with differences in spending actually being a function of the structure of welfare systems, not of any demographic imperative. The only potentially real threat is of rapidly declining fertility, but Castles argues that welfare state spending in the form of family-friendly public policy is, in fact, our best defence against this problem. This is a book with significant policy implications. It identifies the factors likely to mould welfare state growth and decline in future years, and the diverse problems and challenges confronting welfare state policy-makers in different families of nations. It is a book for those who like assessing evidence before jumping to unwarranted conclusions, and a book for those who wish to see 'the shape of things to come'.
Age in the Welfare State
Age in the 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 Age in the Welfare State write by Julia Lynch. This book was released on 2006-06-05. Age in the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.
Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity
Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity - 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 Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity write by Tijs Laenen. This book was released on 2020-08-28. Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Has there been change or continuity in the welfare attitudes of Europeans since the 2008 financial crisis? Using data from the European Social Survey, this book reveals how various types of welfare attitudes evolved between 2008, when the crisis triggered economic recessions and welfare reforms across Europe, and 2016, when most countries had largely recovered from that crisis.
