Restructuring Social Welfare
Author | : Leila Patel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015053780717 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
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Author | : Leila Patel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015053780717 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Author | : B. Rothstein |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230109247 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230109241 |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing international competition for capital and labour are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competing pressures and offers a coherent analyses of both institutional resilience and institutional change. Adopting an evolutionary approach, this innovative volume demonstrates both how past practices and policies significantly affect the current options and how social and economic forces impinge upon each of these societies in surprisingly different ways. Cross-national in scope and unified in approach, Restructuring the Welfare State examines core issues facing the contemporary welfare state while at the same time significantly advancing historical institutionalist theory.
Author | : Virpi Timonen |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1781957304 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781781957301 |
Rating | : 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
"Virpi Timonen investigates both the changes that have taken place in central social policies in the areas of pensions, unemployment policies, social and health servcies, and the political and structural reasons for the pattern of policy change that emerged. A critical evaluation of the roles of globalization, political mechanisms and power relationships in shaping these social policies in Finland and Sweden is also featured.".
Author | : Tanja Klenk |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-10-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781783475773 |
ISBN-13 | : 1783475773 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
This volume brings together cutting-edge scholarship on an under-researched and topical issue. Quasi-marketization and managerialization of welfare organizations are found to constitute common reform trends in many European countries and across social policy domains, following similar timings albeit with different intensities. The analysis, carried out at the meso and micro levels, reveals that ex-post control by states has been strengthened, managers are becoming relevant or even central actors, while professionals in public welfare institutions are seeing their role and autonomy challenged.' - Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo, Spain 'In the contemporary welfare state public management has become a profession of its own. At the same time professionals in public welfare bureaucracies have incorporated market considerations and managerial objectives in their daily work. This current evolution of welfare governance, path dependent as it is, has been documented thoroughly in this book, both in depth and from a comparative perspective. It makes the book a must read for all who are interested in the welfare state and care about its future.' - Peter Hupe, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands 'This edited collection on welfare governance across Europe will prove itself invaluable for research and teaching purposes. It usefully brings together the whole range of social sciences in a series of well organized, evidenced and argued chapters. The book is organized into two parts, the first focusing on the impact of marketization and managerialization across Europe and across sectors within the welfare state, while the second half focuses on the professions and the emerging human resource management issues. Both are crucial aspects of the new governance and together deliver a coherent and comprehensive set of papers addressing a highly pertinent set of questions for policymakers, analysts and managers for the next decade and will become recommended reading for the students, the welfare state, social and health policy as well as public sector management and administration.' - Mike Dent, Staffordshire University, UK Quasi-markets and managerial steering techniques have spread in the provision of welfare state services and are now a salient feature. This innovative book explores the introduction and impact of marketization and managerialism in social policy by adopting a dual perspective - one on regulation and governance, the other on human resources - covering five fields of social service delivery. Welfare governance (for example, welfare mix, regulation, employment conditions and customer involvement) has changed significantly in the past decade. In particular, the new governance models not only clash with traditional ideas of bureaucratic regulation but also with the norms and standards of professional service delivery. The fact that the labor force in welfare organizations is made up of 'professionals' implies that the introduction of new modes of welfare governance often results in organizational conflicts. The editors and contributors collectively assesses these processes not only by comparing different policy fields and countries, but also by taking a close look inside organizations, examining the coping strategies of professionals, and how they adapt to new models of governing welfare organizations. An ideal compliment to undergraduate and postgraduate study, Restructuring Welfare Governanceis essential reading for scholars in the fields of social policy, public administration and comparative welfare state analysis. Contributors: K. Baadsgaard, V. Burau, F.A. Ceravolo, B. Jantz, H. Jørgensen, T. Klenk, E. Kuhlmann, R. Moscati, M. Noordegraaf, I. Nørup, E. Pavolini, T. Peetz, M. Rostan, U. Schimank, A. Stanchi, C. Teelken, H. Theobald, M. Thunnissen, M. Turri
Author | : Peter Koslowski |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783642606526 |
ISBN-13 | : 3642606520 |
Rating | : 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
The welfare state has been developed first and in its largest extent in North-Western Europe, in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is also in these countries where the crisis and financial problems of the welfare state are felt first. The need for restructuring the welfare state is a challenge of a supra-national, European and international scale. The book analyses the different welfare states in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden with outlooks to Eastern Europe and Japan and examines the proposals for reforming and restructuring the welfare state in Europe. The book offers a unique combination of empirical and philosophical-ethical analysis of the welfare state.
Author | : M. Bloch |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137080233 |
ISBN-13 | : 113708023X |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
This is a collection of essays that address the international changes in welfare policy. The book discusses the new patterns of governing associated with the notions of welfare, care, and education that emerge during the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first-centuries. The issues examined are, among others, the role of international donors and their emphasis on efficiency and lower social subsidies, international migration and its impact on welfare policy inclusions (and exclusions), and national policy change. While representing many different locations and traditions, contributors work within a variety of critical theoretical perspectives that critique our cultural ways of reasoning about the care and education of the child, the role and practice of the state, and the social and cultural construction of citizenship and nationhood.
Author | : Hugh M. Bochel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
ISBN-10 | : 1447324617 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781447324614 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Author | : Jane Lewis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-12-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780429849404 |
ISBN-13 | : 0429849400 |
Rating | : 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Published in 1998. Social provision in all European countries has faced increasing scrutiny during the 1990s. Focusing on gendered aspects of welfare state restructuring, each contributor examines the way in which the welfare state of his or her country has been restructed over the past decade, concentrating on services for elderly people and for children. Each chapter outlines the shifts in the mixed economy of welfare and describes the degree to which there has been greater decentralization moves towards a different style of public management or the introduction of market principles. The changes in the provision of services for elderly people and children is described for the same period. Finally, women's position as paid providers of services, as unpaid carers and as recipients of services is analyzed. This book investigates the idea that the move towards "marketization" in many countries is having a disproportionately detrimental effect on women whose leverage on the market tends to be weak.
Author | : New Zealand. Department of Social Welfare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1985 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:152413824 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Author | : Gyu-Jin Hwang |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781849807531 |
ISBN-13 | : 1849807531 |
Rating | : 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
The fast changing economic climate is creating substantial pressure for welfare state restructuring worldwide. Yet the discussion regarding challenges faced and the responses required has been confined to the 'standard welfare states' in the West. This book examines whether these challenges also apply to the countries in the East, whether these countries have generated different responses to their Western counterparts, and whether they have undergone a process of regime transformation while responding to these pressures. Comparative in approach, this book offers lively discussion on the new social challenges faced in East Asia following the unprecedented scale of the recent global financial crisis. It reaches beyond policy descriptions to offer more systematic analyses of welfare restructuring in the region in relation to the fast changing global economic order. By examining the dynamics of welfare state restructuring both in terms of continuity and change, it explores intensified impacts of global restructuring of welfare and the nature of welfare state adaptation in the region.