ISBN:
9781137267184
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (312 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States
DDC:
361.650948
Keywords:
Comparative politics
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment, entrepreneurship, immigration, single parenthood, education and health
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States; 2 Changing Population Profiles and Social Risk Structures in the Nordic Countries; 3 Welfare State Support of Lone Parents - Nordic Approaches to a Complex and Ambiguous Policy Issue; 4 Working Time Policy Change and New Social Risks; 5 The Growing Emphasis on Social Citizenship in Nordic Education: Inducing New Social Risks While Trying to Alleviate Them
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Structural Unemployment as a New Social Risk in the Nordic Countries - A Critical Reassessment7 Fighting Risks with Risks: Self-Employment and Social Protection in the Nordic Welfare States; 8 Health Capital: New Health Risks and Personal Investments in the Body in the Context of Changing Nordic Welfare States; 9 Ethnification of New Social Risks: Programmes for Preparing Newly Arrived Immigrants for (Working) Life in Sweden, Denmark and Norway; 10 New Geographically Differentiated Configurations of Social Risks: Labour Market Policy Developments in Sweden and Finland
Description / Table of Contents:
11 A Liberalistic Handling of New Social Risks - Danish Experiences from Three Decades of Social Policy Reforms12 Discussion: The Take on New Social Risks in the Nordic Welfare States; Index
Note:
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