Peter (Hrsg.) Taylor-Gooby

After Austerity

Welfare State Transformation in Europe after the Great Recession

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European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately, the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented levels of immigration have imposed additional pressures. This book examines welfare state transformations across a representative range of European countries and at the EU level, and considers likely new directions in social policy. It reviews the dominant neo-liberalausterity response and discusses social investment, fightback, welfare chauvinism, and protectionism.It argues that the class solidarities and cleavages that shaped the development of we… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Leruth, Benjamin (Hrsg.) / Chung, Heejung (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-250742-6
EAN: 9780192507426
Produktnummer: 29379398
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'371 KB

Über den Autor

Peter Taylor-Gooby is a Research Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent. He is the director of the NORFACE-funded 'Welfare States Futures: Our Children's Europe' (WelfSOC) project. His publications include Britain's Growth Crisis (co-edited with Colin Hay and Jeremy Green, Palgrave, 2015), The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What Can We Do About It (Palgrave, 2013), and New Paradigms in Public Policy (OUP, 2013).Benjamin Leruth is an Assistant Professor in Public Administration at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, and a Research Associate at the University of Kent. He is working on the NORFACE-funded 'Welfare States Futures: Our Children's Europe' (WelfSOC) project. His publications include The Routledge Handbook of Euroscepticism (co-edited with N. Startin and S. Usherwood, Routledge, 2017).Heejung Chung is a Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Kent. She is a Co-I of the NORFACE-funded 'Welfare States Futures: Our Children's Europe' (WelfSOC) project. She is an expert on comparative analysis of welfare states and published in journals such as the European Sociological Review, Journal of European Social Policy, and Human Relations.