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How Welfare States Care

Author : Monique Kremer
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053569758
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book How Welfare States Care written by Monique Kremer and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though women’s employment patterns in Europe have been changing drastically over several decades, the repercussions of this social revolution are just beginning to garner serious attention. Many scholars have presumed that diversity and change in women’s employment is based on the structures of welfare states and women’s responses to economic incentives and disincentives to join the workforce; How Welfare States Care provides in-depth analysis of women’s employment and childcare patterns, taxation, social security, and maternity leave provisions in order to show this logic does not hold. Combining economic, sociological, and psychological insights, Kremer demonstrates that care is embedded in welfare states and that European women are motivated by culturally and morally-shaped ideals of care that are embedded in welfare states—and less by economic reality.

A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?

Author : Lise Lotte Hansen
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447361350
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States? written by Lise Lotte Hansen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic experts review the impact of neoliberal politics and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries.

Care Work

Author : Madonna Harrington Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135959579
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Care Work written by Madonna Harrington Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.

Comparative Welfare State Politics

Author : Kees van Kersbergen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107005639
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Welfare State Politics written by Kees van Kersbergen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform in advanced democracies.

Contested Welfare States

Author : Stefan Svallfors
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804783179
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Contested Welfare States written by Stefan Svallfors and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare state is a trademark of the European social model. An extensive set of social and institutional actors provides protection against common risks, offering economic support in periods of hardship and ensuring access to care and services. Welfare policies define a set of social rights and address common vulnerabilities to protect citizens from market uncertainties. But over recent decades, European welfare states have undergone profound restructuring and recalibration. This book analyzes people's attitudes toward welfare policies across Europe, and offers a novel comparison with the United States. Occupied with normative orientations toward the redistribution of resources and public policies aimed at ameliorating adverse conditions, the book focuses on the interplay between individual welfare attitudes and behavior, institutional contexts, and structural variables. It provides essential input into the comparative study of welfare state attitudes and offers critical insights into the public legitimacy of welfare state reform.

Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

Author : Bent Greve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351800558
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State written by Bent Greve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive understanding of what ‘the welfare state’ means around the world. In the aftermath of the credit crunch, the Handbook addresses some of the many questions about the welfare state. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include an in-depth analysis of societal changes in recent years. New articles can be found on topics such as: the impact of ideas, well-being, migration, globalisation, India, welfare typologies, homelessness and long-term care. This volume will be an invaluable reference book for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, international relations, politics and gender studies.

Gender and the Welfare State

Author : Mary Daly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780745622316
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Gender and the Welfare State written by Mary Daly and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations.

The Shadow Welfare State

Author : Marie Gottschalk
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725009
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Welfare State written by Marie Gottschalk and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance? Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here that the unions' surprising stance was a consequence of the peculiarly private nature of social policy in the United States. Her book combines a much-needed account of labor's important role in determining health care policy with a bold and incisive analysis of the American welfare state. Gottschalk stresses that, in the United States, the social welfare system is anchored in the private sector but backed by government policy. As a result, the private sector is a key political battlefield where business, labor, the state, and employees hotly contest matters such as health care. She maintains that the shadow welfare state of job-based benefits shaped the manner in which labor defined its policy interests and strategies. As evidence, Gottschalk examines the influence of the Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (E.R.I.S.A.), and experience-rated health insurance, showing how they constrained labor from supporting universal health care. Labor, Gottschalk asserts, missed an important opportunity to develop a broader progressive agenda. She challenges the movement to establish a position on health care that addresses the growing ranks of Americans without insurance, the restructuring of the U.S. economy, and the political travails of the unions themselves.

Why Welfare States Persist

Author : Clem Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226075958
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Why Welfare States Persist written by Clem Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and fiscal pressures, has the welfare state not been replaced by another model? Reconsidering the myriad issues raised by such pressing questions, Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza contend here that public opinion has been an important, yet neglected, factor in shaping welfare states in recent decades. Analyzing data on sixteen countries, Brooks and Manza find that the preferences of citizens profoundly influence the welfare policies of their governments and the behavior of politicians in office. Shaped by slow-moving forces such as social institutions and collective memories, these preferences have counteracted global pressures that many commentators assumed would lead to the welfare state’s demise. Moreover, Brooks and Manza show that cross-national differences in popular support help explain why Scandinavian social democracies offer so much more than liberal democracies such as the United States and the United Kingdom. Significantly expanding our understanding of both public opinion and social policy in the world’s most developed countries, this landmark study will be essential reading for scholars of political economy, public opinion, and democratic theory.

Raising Government Children

Author : Catherine E. Rymph
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469635658
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Raising Government Children written by Catherine E. Rymph and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks.

The Welfare of Nations

Author : James Bartholomew
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 193970992X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book The Welfare of Nations written by James Bartholomew and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And—is it too late to stop welfare states from permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world? Traveling around the globe, James Bartholomew examines welfare models, searching for the best education, health care, and support services in 11 vastly different countries; illuminating the advantages and disadvantages of other nations' welfare states; and delving into crucial issues such as literacy, poverty, and inequality. This is a hard-hitting and provocative contribution to understanding how welfare states, as the defining form of government today, are changing the very nature of modern civilization.

Reinventing the Welfare State

Author : Ursula Huws
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786807083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing the Welfare State written by Ursula Huws and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today's welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public sector workers, from under-resourced hospitals to a shortage of housing and affordable social care, the pandemic has shown how decades of neglect has caused hundreds to die. In this bold new book, leading policy analyst Ursula Huws shows how we can create a welfare state that is fair, affordable, and offers security for all. Huws focuses on some of the key issues of our time - the gig economy, universal, free healthcare, and social care, to criticize the current state of welfare provision. Drawing on a lifetime of research on these topics, she clearly explains why we need to radically rethink how it could change. With positivity and rigor, she proposes new and original policy ideas, including critical discussions of Universal Basic Income and new legislation for universal workers' rights. She also outlines a 'digital welfare state' for the 21st century. This would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernize and expand public services, and improve accessibility."--Provided by publisher

Wealth and Welfare States

Author : Irwin Garfinkel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019957930X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Wealth and Welfare States written by Irwin Garfinkel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.

Fatherhood in the Nordic welfare states

Author : Eydal, Guðný Björk
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447321146
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Fatherhood in the Nordic welfare states written by Eydal, Guðný Björk and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to shaping and influencing the images, roles and practices of fathers in a diversity of family settings and variations of fatherhoods. This comprehensive volume will have wide international appeal for those who look to Nordic countries and their success in creating gender equal societies.

The Welfare State

Author : David Garland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199672660
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Welfare State written by David Garland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 'Very Short Introduction' discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.

Justice, Care, and the Welfare State

Author : Daniel Engster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191030252
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Justice, Care, and the Welfare State written by Daniel Engster and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western welfare states are in a period of significant transition. Changes in the nature of work and the family, the growing elderly population, and other developments over the past fifty years have rendered existing welfare policies largely out-of-step with economic and social conditions. While welfare state reform clearly raises important questions about justice and social policy, political philosophers have been slow to address it. Justice, Care, and the Welfare State takes up the important task of developing a theory of justice to guide contemporary welfare state reform. Applying normative political philosophy to public policy issues, it addresses questions such as: What role, if any, should states play in supporting families? Should the state support national health care and, if so, why and in what form? What does society owe to the elderly? What role should welfare states play in supporting disabled people? What obligations does the state have toward the poor? As distinct from many works of political philosophy, Justice, Care, and the Welfare State draws on empirical data about the populations and circumstances of existing Western societies and offers concrete policy advice for reforming welfare policies. Noting that many of the challenges confronting people in post-industrial societies involve issues of care, Engster draws on a public ethics of care to develop his theory of welfare state justice, outlining specific policy proposals in the areas of the family, education, health care, old age pensions and long-term care, disability, and poverty and unemployment. The book offers important insights into how Western welfare states can be reformed in light of recent economic and social changes in order better to promote justice. It should be of interest to political philosophers, welfare state scholars, public policy analysts, and others interested in thinking about contemporary policy reform and justice.

Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State

Author : Tine Rask Eriksen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351159941
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State written by Tine Rask Eriksen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nordic welfare model has become an ideal in feminist literature and in welfare state studies. This has heightened scientific and political interest in the model and its key aspects, including the provision and production of care as public responsibility. In this engaging volume, contributors from various professional disciplines - including sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and educationalists - provide a comprehensive overview of the complex state of paid work in social care within the Nordic welfare states and of the dilemmas facing state-provided care in the region. They develop insights into the conditions, practices and trends in the area of paid care in the social and health care sector, insights that expose the dilemmas and tensions associated with paid care and care education. Divided into four parts, the book will greatly interest academics, post-graduate students and professionals concerned with the Nordic model and welfare states. It will also benefit those from outside the region interested in a specific Nordic tradition of research on publicly-provided care and the current dilemmas and challenges facing training in care.