Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781447306436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 344 str.

Daniel Beland; Klaus Petersen

Opis

Social policy scholars and practitioners have long employed concepts such as welfare state and social security but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? What characterizes social policy language in different places, and how do some social concepts travel between them? Addressing such questions in a systematic manner, the contributors to this collection analyze the concepts and language used to describe contemporary social policy. Combining detailed chapters on particular countries with broader comparative chapters, the book offers a variety of perspectives on just what we mean when we use these terms."

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Introduction: Social Policy Concepts and Language ~ Daniel Béland and Klaus Petersen; Social Policy Language in Denmark and Sweden ~ Nils Edling, Jørn Henrik Petersen & Klaus Petersen; The Changing Language of Social Policy in Hungary and Poland ~ Zsófia Aczél, Dorota Szelewa & Dorottya Szikra; Languages of “Social Policy” at “the EU level” ~ Jean-Claude Barbier; The OECD’s Search for a New Social Policy Language: From Welfare State to Active Society ~ Rianne Mahon; The Discursive Power of International Organisations: Social Policy Language and Concepts in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ~ Antje Vetterlein; Original and Imitated or Elusive and Limited? Towards a Genealogy of the Welfare State Idea in Britain ~ Daniel Wincott; Social Policy Concepts and Language in France ~ Daniel Béland; The Language of Social Politics in Finland ~ Pauli Kettunen; Germany: Constructing the ‘Win-Win’ Society ~ Stephan Lessenich; Conceptual Development of Welfare and Social Policy in Japan ~ Toshimitsu Shinkawa and Yuki Tsuji; Transition to the ‘Universal’ Welfare State: The Changing Meaning of “Welfare State” in Korea ~ Huck-ju Kwon; The Dutch “Caring State” ~ Kees van Kersbergen and Jaap Woldendorp; Panacea, Problem or Perish: Social Policy Language in New Zealand ~ Neil Lunt; Evolving Social Policy Languages in Spain: What did Democracy and EU Membership Change? ~ Ana M. Guillén & David Luque; Social Policy Language in the United States ~ Jennifer Klein, Daniel Béland & Klaus Petersen; Conclusion: Comparative Perspectives on Social Policy Language ~ Klaus Petersen & Daniel Béland.