Welfare State Transformations

Author : B. Larsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230363954
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State written by B. Larsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing transformations taking place in the Swedish welfare state.

Author : M. Seeleib-Kaiser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230227392
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare State Transformations written by M. Seeleib-Kaiser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides new empirical evidence of far-reaching changes to welfare states globally, which have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private' domain within the mixed economies of welfare. Various modes of policy intervention are investigated, providing a nuanced account of reforms in the past decade.

Author : Frank Sowa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351619942
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Work in Welfare State Organizations written by Frank Sowa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has New Public Management influenced social policy reform in different developed welfare states? New managerialism is conceptualized as a paradigm, which not only shapes the decision-making process in bureaucratic organizations but also affects the practice of individuals (citizens). Public administrations have been expected to transform from traditional bureaucratic organizations into modern managerial service providers by adopting a business model that requires the efficient and effective use of resources. The introduction of managerial practices, controlling and accounting systems, management by objectives, computerization, service orientation, increased outsourcing, competitive structures and decentralized responsibility are typical of efforts to increase efficiency. These developments have been accompanied by the abolition of civil service systems and fewer secure jobs in public administrations. This book provides a sociological understanding of how public administrations deal with this transformation, how people’s role as public servants is affected, and what kind of strategies emerge either to meet these new organizational requirements or to circumvent them. It shows how hybrid arrangements of public services are created between the public and the private sphere that lead to conflicts of interest between private strategies and public tasks as well as to increasingly homogeneous social welfare provision across Europe.

Author : Toomas Kotkas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315524317
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Rights in the Welfare State written by Toomas Kotkas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the future of the welfare state is the object of heated debate in many European countries, this edited collection explores the relationship between this institution and social rights. Structured around the themes of the politics of social rights, questions of equality and social exclusion/inclusion, and the increasing impact of market imperatives on social policy, the book explores the effect of transformations in the welfare state upon social rights and their underlying rationalities and logics. Written by a group of international scholars, many of the essays discuss a number of urgent and topical issues within social policy, including: the social rights of asylum seekers; the increasing marketization and consumerization of public welfare services; the care of the elderly; and the obligation to work as a condition of access to welfare benefits. International in its scope, and interdisciplinary in its approach, this collection of essays will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of law and socio-legal studies, sociology, social policy, and politics. It will also be of interest to policy makers and all those engaged in the debate over the future of the welfare state and social rights.

Author : P. Bleses
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230005632
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State written by P. Bleses and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-08-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new intellectual ground in the analysis of the German welfare state. Bleses and Seeleib-Kaiser argue that we are witnessing a dual transformation of the welfare state, which is caused by the emergence of new dominating interpretative patterns. Increasingly, the state reduces its social policy commitments towards securing the achieved living standard of former wage earners, which in the past had been the key normative principle of social policy in Germany, while at the same time public support and services for families are expanded.

Author : Nick Ellison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134765703
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Welfare States? written by Nick Ellison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes -- The challenge of globalization -- Globalization and welfare regime change -- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies -- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes -- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems -- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes -- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.

Author : Romke Jan van der Veen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089643834
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Solidarity written by Romke Jan van der Veen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De literatuur over welvaartsstaten richt zich vaak op beleidsveranderingsprocessen en de mechanismen die deze veranderingen veroorzaken of tegenwerken. De werkelijke verandering wordt vaak geïnterpreteerd als gevolg van externe crises of als gevolg van de meer geleidelijke beleidsveranderingsprocessen. Dit boek heeft een ander uitgangspunt: de auteurs onderzoeken de bewering dat de sociale en economische veranderingen als gevolg van de overgang naar een postindustriële samenleving de sociale fundamenten van de verzorgingsstaat hebben verzwakt.

Author : Neil Gilbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195176575
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformation of the Welfare State written by Neil Gilbert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Same time, the glaring systemic deficiencies of extant welfare systems-and the psychological toll of welfare dependency--became increasingly apparent, even to welfare's supporters.

Author : Peter Taylor-Gooby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198790260
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Austerity written by Peter Taylor-Gooby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines European welfare states, how and why they are changing, and how they are likely to develop.

Author : Michael B. Fabricant
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765633347
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Welfare State Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work written by Michael B. Fabricant and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1992-07-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: