ISBN:
9789048188420
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 200p, digital)
Series Statement:
Children¿s Well-Being: Indicators and Research 2
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Children, gender and families in Mediterranean welfare states
Keywords:
Sozialpolitik
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Sozialreform
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Sozialstaat
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Systemvergleich
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Mittelmeerraum
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Social sciences
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Quality of Life
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Social policy
;
Quality of Life Research
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Applied psychology
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Developmental psychology
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Social Sciences
;
Social sciences
;
Quality of Life
;
Social policy
;
Quality of Life Research
;
Applied psychology
;
Developmental psychology
;
Mittelmeerraum
;
Familienpolitik
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Mittelmeerraum
;
Familienpolitik
Abstract:
The study of welfare states and social policy has enjoyed growing popularity in the last three decades. This field has been characterized by a growing level of theorization, richer case study analyses, inclusion of additional sources of welfare provision (non-profit, market-based, informal, family) and fields of study (globalization, gender, ethnicity, immigration, children), and increasingly complex, accurate and up-to-date cross-national comparative analyses. One of the subjects that have been the focus of much interest has been that of families, women and children - their social well being and their legal and economic status in the welfare state. The common assumption is that there is a clear relationship and interaction between the structuring of the welfare state and the well-being and social status of these subs groups. Cross-national comparative analyses have shown that this interaction differs significantly from country to country, depending on the culture, religion as well as on its welfare regime. Scholars are engaged in diverse efforts to understand the differences between these policies in diverse welfare states, the reasons for these differences and their results. This volume deals with these issues from a unique welfare regime perspective. While over the last two decades research on welfare states has generally tended to assume that these nations can be divided into welfare regimes with common characteristics, there has been much ambivalence towards, and much less study of, the welfare states in the Mediterranean region. This volume focuses on these welfare states and makes the case for regarding the nations in this region as belonging to a common family of nations. It then seeks to compare policies towards children, families and gender in these nations. The volume will seek to further this research agenda by including an initial section that offers an overview of the Mediterranean welfare states, and then discusses issues of children, families and gender in general. The second part of the book will offer detailed country studies of these issues, all authored by leading experts in the various countries. TOC: Tentative Table of Contents 1. Mimi Ajzenstadt and John Gal: Introduction Part I: Setting the Scene 2. John Gal: Exploring the Extended Family of Mediterranean Welfare States 3. Hadas Mandel: Gender and the Welfare State 4. Tomas Olk: Children, Childhood and the Welfare State 5. Jim McDonell: Children, Communities and Well-Being Part II: Country Studies 5. Valeria Fargion: Children, Gender and Families in the Italian Welfare State 6. Celia Valiente: Children, Gender and Families in the Spanish Welfare State 7. Azer Kilic: Children, Gender and Families in the Turkish Welfare State 8. Theano Kallinkaki: Children, Gender and Families in the Greek Welfare State 9. Mimi Ajzenstadt: Children, Gender and Families in the Israeli Welfare State 10. Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Contributors; Children, Gender, and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States: An Introduction; References; Part I Key Concepts; Investing in Children? Changes in Policies Concerning Children and Families in European Countries; Understanding Gender Economic Inequality Across Welfare Regimes; Neighborhoods and Families; Part II Setting the Scene; Exploring the Extended Family of Mediterranean Welfare States, or: Did Beveridge and Bismarck Take a Mediterranean Cruise Together?; Part III Country Studies; Children, Gender and Families in the Italian Welfare State
Description / Table of Contents:
The Erosion of Familism in the Spanish Welfare State: Childcare Policy Since 1975References; Children, Families and Women in the Israeli State: 1880s--2008; Gender, Family and Children at the Crossroads of Social Policy Reform in Turkey: Alternating Between Familialism and Individualism; Gender, Children and Families in the Greek Welfare State; Part IV A Cross-National Comparison; Is There a Mediterranean Welfare State? A Country-Level Analysis; Name Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-8842-0
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