Reinventing Social Security Worldwide: Back to Essentials

ISBN-13: 9781847426413 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 136 str.

Rys, Vladimir

Opis

Prior to the onset of the current financial crisis, global trends of social security in industrialized societies were indicating a progressive disengagement of the State in favor of tax-financed measures similar to social assistance which may fail to ensure a basic standard of living. In this timely book, author Vladimir Rys - with his lifelong experience of international social security - advocates reinstating social insurance by reducing the volume of income redistribution, increasing the transparency of money flows, and improving citizen information. This unique book, with its global perspective, is highly topical, especially in the current economic climate.

Spis treści

Part One: Social security evolution in a global perspective: what is at stake? A brief history of social security; Essential issues of social protection in our society; The new approaches to securing human existence in society; Part Two: Understanding social security in its societal environment: which methodology? A brief history of the sociology of social security; A macro-sociological approach to the study of social security; The use of macro-sociological factor analysis in comparative studies; Part Three: Reinventing social security in times of economic crisis: foundations of a new political consensus Adapting social security to a new societal environment; Final reflections.