Research Catalog

Title

Belonging, solidarity and expansion in social policy / Stefanie Börner.

Author

Börner, Stefanie, 1980-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description

viii, 222 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Belonging, Solidarity and Expansion in Social Policy examines processes of social policy formation and shifting solidarities from the perspective of the actors most affected. Using the examples of nineteenth century mutual benefit societies in the UK and Germany, and EU level social policy, it shows empirically how actors are able to shift their solidarities towards strangers and reveals the argumentative patters concerning such a transformation. The book's innovative research programme provides theoretical and empirical insights on the question regarding the relationship of belonging and social policy. It offers a new theory on the formation of redistributive preferences based on an approach combining theories of solidarity and structural incentives. The analysis shows how these preferences are shaped by available institutional alternatives, cost-benefit-calculations and identity-oriented interests, and thus offers new empirical evidence on how individuals are able to reintegrate wider identities and align their solidarities also at the European level"--

Subject

• Comparative politics > EU (European Union)
• Europäische Union
• POLITICAL SCIENCE > Cultural Policy
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture
• Social & ethical issues > EU (European Union)
• Social issues & processes > EU (European Union)
• Social planning
• Social planning
• Social policy
• Social research & statistics > EU (European Union)
• Social welfare & social services > EU (European Union)
• Society
• Solidarität
• Soziale Sicherheit
• Sozialpolitik
• Welfare state
• Welfare state
• Wohlfahrtsstaat

Note

• Revised version of the author's PhD thesis, Bremen International Graduate School for Social Sciences.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- Part I. Social solidarity and the Welfare State: 2. Towards a New Historical Sociology?; 3. Solidarity and Social Policy -- Part II. Benefit Societies and the Welfare State: 4. Social Security Beneath the Nation State; 5. Collectively Against the State; 6. Debating the Expansion of Solidarity; 7. Coping with Change -- Part III. Social Solidarity Between Europe and the Nation State: 8. Beyond the National: The Construction of Social Solidarity in the European Union; 9. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781137319579 (hardback)
• 1137319577 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2013031318

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library