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9780745618111

European Welfare Futures Towards a Theory of Retrenchment

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745618111

  • ISBN10:

    0745618111

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-18
  • Publisher: Polity

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Summary

European Welfare Futures presents a clear and up-to-date analysis of developments in social policy in the main EU member states. It provides a systematic account of welfare retrenchment and assesses the competing explanations of this process. The authors provide convincing evidence for the view that an 'ever closer union' in social policy will require a much more difficult process than that which led to monetary union. The book makes a major contribution to understanding how welfare policy in Europe will develop over the next few years. It offers an original and wide-ranging account of the forces affecting the direction of policy, and stresses the role of social and political institutions in explaining why countries differ. European Welfare Futures will be essential reading for undergraduates, graduate students and scholars in social policy, sociology, political science, area studies and international relations courses. It will also be of great interest to policy-makers in the EU, especially in the areas of pensions, health, social care and unemployment.

Author Biography

Guiliano Bonoli is at IDHEAP, Switzerland.


Vic George is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy.


Peter Taylor-Gooby is Professor of Social Policy, both at Darwin College, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vi
List of Tables
vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1(7)
Explanations of the Growth of State Welfare
8(21)
New Directions in European Welfare Policy
29(21)
Globalization and the Welfare State
50(22)
Welfare Politics: The Narrowing of the National Conscience
72(24)
The Neo-liberal Argument for Welfare Retrenchment
96(23)
Squaring the Welfare Circle
119(20)
The Impact of Institutional Frameworks
139(14)
European Welfare Futures
153(8)
References 161(14)
Index 175

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