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The Times They Are Changing?
Crisis and the Welfare State
Bent Greve (Edited by), B Greve (Author)
9781444361476, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 6 January 2012
192 pages
23.1 x 15.2 x 1 cm, 0.259 kg
The Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State presents a series of readings from international policy researchers that examine the effects of the recent financial crisis on welfare states around the world.
Editorial Introduction: Overview and Conclusion 1 1 To What Extent Did the Financial Crisis Intensify the Pressure to Reform the Welfare State? 7 2 Falling Back on Old Habits? A Comparison of the Social and Unemployment Crisis Reactive Policy Strategies in Germany, the UK and Sweden 23 3 The Impact of the Crisis on Australian Social Security Policy in Historical Perspective 41 4 US Social Policy in the 21st Century: The Difficulties of Comprehensive Social Reform 59 5 Economic Crisis and Welfare Retrenchment: Comparing Irish Policy Responses in the 1970s and 1980s with the Present 79 6 Crisis and Welfare State Change in the Netherlands 101 7 Explaining Welfare Reforms in Italy between Economy and Politics: External Constraints and Endogenous Dynamics 117 8 The Economic Crisis as a Trigger of Convergence? Short-time Work in Italy, Germany and Austria 137 9 Health Care Policy for Better or for Worse? Examining NHS Reforms During Times of Economic Crisis versus Relative Stability 161 Index 179
Bent Greve
Barbara Vis, Kees van Kersbergen and Thomas H. Hylands
Heejung Chung and Stefan Thewissen
Peter Saunders and Chris Deeming
Anne Daguerre
Fiona Dukelow
Mara Yerkes and Romke van der Veen
Franca Maino and Stefano Neri
Stefano Sacchi, Federico Pancaldi and Claudia Arisi
Lorraine Frisina Doetter and Ralf Götze
Subject Areas: Social services & welfare, criminology [JK]
