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Title

Recasting European welfare states / editors, Maurizio Ferrera, Martin Rhodes.

Publication

London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Ferrera, Maurizio.
• Rhodes, Martin, 1956 February 23-

Description

302 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume presents research on the recasting of European welfare states from the European Forum on Welfare at the European University Institute in Florence. The chapters include both comparative analyses of topical issues (such as reforms of the major social programmes: pensions, health, social security and the changing political cleavages in welfare politics), and in-depth studies of changes in the major European countries. The objectives are: to analyze the impact of retrenchment; reform and add to the ongoing debates about policy convergence; the origins of pressures for reform (domestic and internal); the shifting balance of power between modernizers and vested interests; and the nature of the trade-offs involved in social policy innovation and the outcomes in terms of cost saving, resource redeployment and equality.

Subject

• Welfare state
• Europe > Social policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Recasting European welfare states: an introduction / Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes -- Interests and choice in the 'not so quite so new' politics of welfare / Fiona Ross -- Reforming health care in Europe / Richard Freeman and Michael Moran -- Timing and the development of social care services in Europe / Valerian Fargion -- Motives, means and opportunities: reforming unemployment compensation in the 1990s / Jochen Clasen -- 'Defrosting ' the French welfare state / Bruno Palier -- The employment crisis of German welfare state / Philip Manow and Eric Seils -- Desperately seeking a solution: social democracy, Thatcherism and the 'third way' in British welfare / Martin Rhodes -- Reforms guided by consensus: the welfare state in the Italian transition / Mauriszio Ferrera and Elizsabetta Gualmini -- The Scandinavian welfare state in the 1990s: challenged but viable / Stein Kuhnle -- Change and immobility: three decades of policy adjustment in th Netherlands and Belgium / Anton Hermerijck and Jelle Visser -- Building a sustainable welfare states / Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes.

ISBN

• 0714651036
• 0714681431 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00029044^

OCLC

• 43615841
• SCSB-11411062

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Harvard Library