Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems

ISBN-13: 9780367259150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 592 str.

Sonja Blum; Johanna Kuhlmann; Klaus Schubert

Opis

Published ten years after the first edition, this new handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all twenty-eight EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. Reform Pathways of European Welfare Systems: Analysing Change and Continuity in a Broadened Geographical and Temporal Perspective  Part 2: Country Studies  2. Austrification in Welfare System Change? An Analysis of Welfare System Development between 1998 and 2018 in Austria  3. Belgium’s Welfare System: Still Lagging After All These Years  4. The Bulgarian Welfare System: Reforms and Their Effects on Inequalities and Vulnerable Groups Between 1997 and 2018  5. The Restructuring of the Cypriot Welfare System: Will the New Provision System Prove to be a Success?  6. Hybridisation and Diversification Welfare System Developments Between 1993 and 2018 in the Czech Republic  7. The German Welfare System: The Calm After the Storm  8. Denmark – A Universal Welfare System with Restricted Austerity  9. The Welfare System in Estonia: Between Liberalism and Solidarity  10. The Spanish Welfare System: Towards a New Social and Territorial Pact?  11. Still Holding Its Breath: The Finnish Welfare System under Reform  12. The Recalibration of the French Welfare System  13. ‘Liberalising’ Social Protection amid Austerity in Greece  14. The Croatian Welfare System: A Lack of Coherent Policy Paradigm Followed by Inconsistent Policy Reforms?  15. Pathway to a Punitive Workfare System: Hungary  16. The Welfare System in Ireland Over the Last 20 Years  17. The Italian Welfare System: An Incomplete Transition?  18. The Lithuanian Welfare System Over the Last Twenty Years of Democratic Transition: Achievements, Challenges and Future Prospects  19. Changes in Luxembourg’s Welfare System (1998-2018): Coalition Governments and Europeanisation as Major Driving Forces  20. Social Policy Reforms in Latvia: Shift Towards Individual Responsibility of Welfare  21. The Maltese Welfare System: Hybrid Wine in Rightist Bottles? With Two-Sided Labels?  22. The Dutch Participatory State: Shift from a Welfare System of Collective Solidarity Towards Individual Responsibility in a Participatory Society  23. Politics of Welfare: The Polish Welfare System in the First Decades of the 21^st Century  24. The Portuguese Welfare System: A Late European Welfare System under Permanent Stress  25. The Romanian Welfare System: From the Shadow of Equality to the Dazzle of Dualisation  26. The Swedish Welfare System: The Neoliberal Turn and Most Recent Struggles Over Decentralised Top-down Re-regulation  27. Restructuring the Slovenian Welfare System: Between Economic Pressures and Future Challenge  28. The Slovak Welfare System: From Turbulent Times to Stability  29. The United Kingdom: New Devolved Welfare Systems in Britain  Part 3: EU Social Policy and Comparative Perspectives  30. European Union Social Policy – Facing Deepening Economic Integration and Demand for a More Social Europe With Continuity and Cautiousness  31. The Development of Welfare State Spending in the EU, 1995–2015: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis  32. Landscapes in Motion: Welfare System Reform in 28 European Countries 1998-2018