Social Welfare Around the World: Social Welfare Around the World
Social Safety Nets and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Jannatul Ferdous, AKM Ahsan Ullah
May 06, 2025
This book investigates the origins, current state, and fundamental value of social safety nets in developing countries, as well as their effectiveness in these settings. Social safety net programs (SSNPs) are critical because they keep those who are already vulnerable from falling deeper into ...
Citizenship and Social Exclusion at the Margins of the Welfare State
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianne Takle, Janikke Solstad Vedeler, Mi Ah Schoyen, Kjetil Klette-Bøhler, Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
November 28, 2024
This book presents a critical account of how citizenship unfolds among socially marginalised groups in democratic welfare states. Legal, political and sociological perspectives are applied to offer an assessment of the extent and depth of citizenship for marginalised groups in countries which are ...
Social Investment and Institutional Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Ciarini
October 09, 2024
This book focuses on the main institutional changes affecting the Social Investment approach as the framework for the European social agenda. The contributions gathered address these issues from different angles, placing two fundamental issues at the centre of the analysis. The first concerns the ...
Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice: Discursive and Rhetorical Approaches
1st Edition
By Laura Tarkiainen
May 27, 2024
This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements. Providing a thorough analysis of how deservingness representations ...
Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States
1st Edition
Edited
By Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Marianne Takle, Britt Slagsvold
May 31, 2023
This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states....
Welfare State Transformation in the Yugoslav Successor States: From Social to Unequal
1st Edition
By Marija Stambolieva
August 27, 2019
Welfare states are the product of economic, political and social interactions, and undergo changes as these interactions transform. Existing welfare state theories mainly tend to explain the emergence and development of the welfare state in the western, industrialized and capitalist world. While ...
The Transformation of the Social Right to Healthcare: Evidence from England and Germany
1st Edition
By Katharina Böhm
May 07, 2019
This pathbreaking book investigates welfare state change in the area of health care- a field widely neglected by comparative welfare state research. While some work on health care expenditure exists, health care rights have not been systematically studied since social rights have exclusively ...
Long-term Care for the Elderly in Europe: Development and Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Bent Greve
January 29, 2018
Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in many contemporary welfare states around the globe given ageing populations. This ground-breaking book provides detailed case studies of 11 EU-member states’ welfare regimes within Europe to show how welfare states organize, structures and deliver...