Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
About the Book Series
This series presents leading edge research on the recasting of European welfare states. The series is interdisciplinary, featuring contributions from experts in economics, political science and social policy. The books provide a comparative analysis of topical issues, including:
- reforms of the major social programmes - pensions, health, social security
- the changing political cleavages in welfare politics
- policy convergence and social policy innovation
- the impact of globalization.
The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States: Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks
1st Edition
Edited
By Klaus Armingeon, Giuliano Bonoli
December 03, 2007
This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society. It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income of the male breadwinner. Today, however, ...
Normative Foundations of the Welfare State: The Nordic Experience
1st Edition
By Nanna Kildal, Stein Kuhnle
December 08, 2006
This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe. Welfare programs and institutions tend to be analyzed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programs are essentially expressions of moral ...
Renegotiating the Welfare State: Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerhard Lehmbruch, Frans van Waarden
July 29, 2003
Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation ...
Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Philip Manow
October 26, 2001
This book challenges the popular thesis of a downward trend in the viability of welfare states in competitive market economies.With approaches ranging from historical case studies to cross-national analyses, the contributors explore various aspects of the relationships between welfare states, ...
Controlling a New Migration World
1st Edition
Edited
By Virginie Guiraudon, Christian Joppke
October 12, 2001
Controlling a New Migration World explores the factors that drive recent migration control policies and, in turn, sheds light on the unintended consequences of policies for the new character of migration. This book asks how we can account for the immigration policies of liberal states. Is the ...
Immigration and Welfare: Challenging the Borders of the Welfare State
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Bommes, Andrew Geddes
January 18, 2001
Immigration and Welfare avoids simplistic and unhelpful notions of the 'threat' of immigration to analyse the effects of immigration on national welfare states in an integrating Europe. It explores new migration challenges, such as asylum seekers and Europe's increasingly restrictive immigration ...