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This is the much anticipated revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. It is an indispensable one-volume guide to what modern states spend most of their time and money doi...
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| Published: |
Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Oxford handbooks. |
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| Summary: |
This is the much anticipated revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. It is an indispensable one-volume guide to what modern states spend most of their time and money doing. |
| Carrier Form: | xxx, 990 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780198828389 0198828381 |
| Index Number: | HN57 |
| CLC: | D771.27-62 |
| Call Number: | D771.27-62/O984/2nd ed. |
| Contents: |
Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Select List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- A Note on the Jacket Illustration -- Stephan Leibfried -- 1 Introduction -- PART I PHILOSOPHICAL JUSTIFICATIONS AND CRITIQUES OF THE WELFARE STATE -- 2 Ethics -- 3 Intellectual Roots of the Welfare State -- 4 The Critics of Welfare: From Neoliberalism to Populism -- PART II HISTORY -- 5 The Emergence of the Western Welfare State -- 6 Post-?War Welfare State Development: The 'Golden Age' 7 Recent Developments: Social Investment Reform in the Twenty-?First Century -- PART III APPROACHES -- 8 Research Methods -- 9 Public and Private Social Welfare -- 10 Governance -- 11 Social Investment -- 12 Families, States, and Markets -- 13 Disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare States -- PART IV INPUT AND ACTORS -- 14 Needs and Risks in the Welfare State -- 15 Democracy and Capitalism -- 16 Unions and Employers -- 17 Parties -- 18 Political Institutions -- 19 Public Attitudes -- 20 Gender -- 21 Religion -- 22 Migration and New Ethnic Minorities -- 23 European and National Social Policy 24 Intergovernmental Organizations -- 25 Globalization -- PART V POLICIES -- 26 Social Expenditure and Welfare State Financing -- 27 The Welfare State as Employer -- 28 Old-?Age Pensions -- 29 Health -- 30 Long-?Term Care -- 31 Work Accident and Sickness Benefits -- 32 Disability -- 33 Unemployment Insurance -- 34 Employment Promotion -- 35 The Regulation of Employment -- 36 Social Assistance -- 37 Family Benefits and Services -- 38 Housing -- 39 Education -- PART VI POLICY OUTCOMES -- 40 The Social Rights of Citizenship -- 41 Inequality and Poverty -- 42 Macroeconomic Outcomes 43 Gendered Outcomes -- 44 Welfare Retrenchment -- PART VII WORLDS OF WELFARE -- 45 Models of the Welfare State -- 46 The Nordic Countries -- 47 Continental Western Europe -- 48 The South European Countries -- 49 The English-?Speaking Countries -- 50 Central and Eastern European Countries -- PART VIII PROSPECTS -- 51 From Welfare States to Planetary Well-?Being -- Name Index -- Subject Index |