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THE ORIGINS OF ACTIVE SOCIAL POLICY
LABOUR MARKET AND CHILDCARE POLICIES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE |
| By: |
Giuliano Bonoli |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£132.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199669767 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199669769 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 March, 2013 |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Description: |
The Origins of Active Social Policy, using both qualitative and quantitative analysis, examines why most western European countries have reoriented their welfare states away from income protection and in the direction of employment promotion. |
| Synopsis: |
Since the mid-1990s European welfare states have undergone a major transformation. Relative to the post-war years, today they put less emphasis on income protection and more on the promotion of labour market participation. This book investigates this transformation by focusing on two fields of social policy: active labour market policy and childcare. Throughout Europe, governments have invested massively in these two areas. The result, a more active welfare state, seems a rather solid achievement, likely to survive the turbulent post-crisis years. Why? Case studies of policy trajectories in seven European countries and advanced statistical analysis of spending figures suggest that the shift towards an active social policy is only in part a response to a changed economic environment. Political competition, and particularly the extent to which active social policy can be used for credit claiming purposes, help us understand the peculiar cross-national pattern of social policy reorientation. This book, by trying to understand the shift towards an active welfare state, provides also an update of political science theories of social policy making. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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