Modernising 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 Modernising the Welfare State write by Powell, Martin. This book was released on 2008-09-30. Modernising the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, the third in Martin Powell's New Labour trilogy, analyses the legacy of Tony Blair's government for social policy, focusing on the extent to which it has changed the UK welfare state.
The Transformation of Welfare States?
The Transformation of Welfare States? - 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 Transformation of Welfare States? write by Nick Ellison. This book was released on 2006-04-07. The Transformation of Welfare States? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes -- The challenge of globalization -- Globalization and welfare regime change -- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies -- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes -- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems -- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes -- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.
The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America
The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America - 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 Development of Welfare States in Europe and America write by Peter Flora. This book was released on 1981-01-01. The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume seeks to contribute to an interdisciplinary, comparative, and historical study of Western welfare states. It attempts to link their historical dynamics and contemporary problems in an international perspective. Building on collaboration between European-and American-based research groups, the editors have coordinated contributions by economists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians. The developments they analyze cover a time span from the initiation of modern national social policies at the end of the nineteenth century to the present. The experiences of all the presently existing Western European systems except Spain and Portugal are systematically encompassed, with comparisons developed selectively with the experiences of the United States and Canada. The development of the social security systems, of public expenditures!and taxation, of public education and educational opportunities, and of income inequality are described, compared, and analyzed for varying groupings of the Western European and North American nations. This volume addresses itself mainly to two audiences. The first includes all students of policy problems of the welfare states who seek to gain a comparative perspective and historical understanding. A second group may be more interested in the theory and empirical analysis of long-term societal developments. In this context, the growth of the welfare states ranges as a major departure, along with the development of national states and capitalist economies. The welfare state is interpreted as a general phenomenon of modernization, as a product of the increasing differentiation and the growing size of societies on the one hand, and of processes of social and political mobilization on the other. It is an important element of the structural convergence of modern societies -- by its mere weight in all countries -- and at the same time a source of divergence by the variations within its institutional structure.
Assessing the Structure of Small Welfare States
Assessing the Structure of Small Welfare States - 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 Assessing the Structure of Small Welfare States write by Geoffrey Bertram. This book was released on 2011. Assessing the Structure of Small Welfare States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. SOCIAL POLICIES IN SMALL STATES SERIES The country case studies and thematic papers in this series examine social policy issues facing small states and the implications for economic development. They show how, despite their inherent vulnerability, some small states have been successful in improving their social indicators because of the complementary social and economic policies they have implemented. THEMATIC PAPER - THE WELFARE STATE Historically, the welfare state evolved as the most efficient policy response to caring for a large, homogeneous population. This traditional model, however, loses importance as population size falls below 3-4 million, especially for states where a significant number of the population migrate and send remittances home, and where the country is the recipient of overseas aid. Facilitating the international mobility of people therefore becomes central to social policy and insofar as the welfare state occurs, it tends to be focused on the labour market. This paper examines how the characteristics of small states influence their pursuit of a welfare state. Many of the small states discussed have not previously featured in mainstream thinking about the relationship between country size and the extent of the welfare state.
The Withering of the Welfare State
The Withering 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 Withering of the Welfare State write by J. Connelly. This book was released on 2012-02-07. The Withering of the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1970s the public commitment to social solidarity between citizens through comprehensive provision of welfare has been eroded by the imperatives of international markets. In this volume the problems posed to public intervention are analyzed. The contributors compare and evaluate how different countries have dealt with these challenges.
