Globalization and European Welfare States Challenges and Change

by Sykes, Robert; Palier, Bruno; Prior, Pauline M.

• ISBN13: 9780333790182
• ISBN10: 0333790189
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-06
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

This text seeks to counter the recent vogue for somewhat unsubstantiated speculation about the impact of globalization upon welfare states. Combining both theoretical and empirical analysis it asks 'What is globalization, and how has it been implicated in recent changes to European welfare states?' Covering all the major European welfare systems, it suggests new empirical and theoretical perspectives. Globalization processes exist, but their link with welfare change is complex, and varies both between countries and types of welfare state.

Author Biography

Robert Sykes is Principal Lecturer in Social Policy, Sheffield Hallam University.

Bruno Palier is ChargT de Recherche--CNRS in Centre d'Ttudes de la vie politique frantais, Paris.

Pauline M. Prior is Lecturer in Social Policy, The Queen's University of Belfast.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	ix
Foreword	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Notes on the Contributors	xiv
List of Abbreviations	xviii
Challenges and Change: Issues and Perspectives in the Analysis of Globalization and the European Welfare States	1	(16)
Bruno Palier
Robert Sykes
PART I GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGES	17	(60)
Globalization and Welfare States: Some Unsettling Thoughts	19	(19)
John Clarke
Globalization, Economic Change and the Welfare State: The `Vexatious Inquisition of Taxation'?	38	(21)
Colin Hay
International Organizations, the EU and Global Social Policy	59	(18)
Bob Deacon
PART II EUROPEAN WELFARE STATE CHANGES	77	(116)
Globalization and the Bismarckian Welfare States	79	(24)
Mary Daly
Globalization and the Southern Welfare States	103	(24)
Ana M. Guillen
Santiago Alvarez
Welfare and `Ill-Fare' Systems in Central-Eastern Europe	127	(26)
Zsuzsa Ferge
Globalization and the Nordic Welfare States	153	(20)
Pekka Kosonen
Globalization and the Liberal Welfare States	173	(20)
Norman Ginsburg
PART III CONCLUSION	193	(18)
Globalization and the European Welfare States: Evaluating the Theories and Evidence	195	(16)
Pauline M. Prior
Robert Sykes
Bibliography	211	(19)
Index	230