Towards a Social Investment Welfare State?: Ideas, Policies and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781847429247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 400 str.

Nathalie Morel

Opis

Since the late 1990s, new strategies concerning the role and shape of welfare states have been formulated, many of which are guided by a logic of social investment. This book maps out this new perspective and assesses both its achievements and shortcomings. In doing so, it provides a critical analysis of social investment ideas and policies and opens up for discussion many of Europe s most pressing concerns such as an aging population, the current economic crisis, and environmental issues and whether social investment can provide adequate responses to these challenges."

Spis treści

Beyond the welfare state as we knew it? ~ Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier, Joakim Palme; Part I: Towards a new social policy paradigm: Two or three waves of welfare state transformation? ~ Anton Hemerijck; Redesigning citizenship regimes after neoliberalism: moving towards social investment ~ Jane Jenson; Part II: Mapping the development of social investment policies: Towards social investment? Patterns of public policy in the OECD world ~ Rita Nikolai; Social investment or recommodification? Assessing the employment policies of the EU member states ~ Caroline de la Porte and Kerstin Jacobsson; Part III: Assessing the social investment policies: Promoting social investment through work-family policies: which nations do it and why? ~ Kimberly J. Morgan; Active labour market policy and social investment: a changing relationship ~ Giuliano Bonoli; Do social investment policies produce more and better jobs? ~ Moira Nelson and John D. Stephens; Social investment in the globalising learning economy: a European perspective ~ Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Edward Lorenz; Part IV: Meeting the challenges ahead?: Social investment in the ageing populations of Europe ~ Thomas Lindh; Aftershock: the post-crisis social investment welfare state in Europe ~ Patrick Diamond and Roger Liddle; Climate policy and the social investment approach: towards a European model for sustainable development ~ Lena Sommestad; From the Lisbon Strategy to EUROPE 2020 ~ Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Edward Lorenz; Social investment: a paradigm in search of a new economic model and political mobilization ~ Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier, Joakim Palme.