ISBN:
9781847421401
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
DDC:
306.094/09051
Keywords:
Public welfare
;
Welfare state
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Abstract:
There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe. The book applies a dynamic and change oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding social change. Using citizenship as a focus, several dimensions of change are analysed simultaneously: changes in the discipline of social policy itself; the changing character of social problems; changes in social policy and citizenship; and the emergence of new forms of social integration. The book also speculates on how different dimensions of change are interlinked
Note:
Front Matter
,
Contents
,
List of tables and figures
,
Preface
,
Glossary
,
Notes on contributors
,
‘Active’ citizenship: the new face of welfare
,
The goals of social policy: context and change
,
Which way for the European social model: minimum standards or social quality?
,
The advent of a flexible life course and the reconfigurations of welfare
,
Citizenship, unemployment and welfare policy
,
Paradoxes of democracy: the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion
,
Citizenship and the activation of social protection: a comparative approach
,
The active society and activation policy: ideologies, contexts and effects
,
Individualising citizenship
,
Gender equality, citizenship and welfare state restructuring
,
New forms of citizenship and social integration in European societies
,
The outcomes of early retirement in Nordic countries
,
Early exit from the labour market, social exclusion and marginalisation in the UK
,
The emergence of social movements by social security claimants
,
Conclusion: policy change, welfare regimes and active citizenship
,
Index
,
In English
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