1st Edition
Economic Crisis and Austerity in Southern Europe Threat or Opportunity for a Sustainable Welfare State
1. Can the Welfare State as We Know It Survive? A View from the Crisis-Ridden South European Periphery
Maria Petmesidou & Ana M. Guillén
2. Reassessing South-European Pensions after the Crisis: Evidence from two Decades of Reforms
David Natali & Furio Stamati
3. South European Healthcare Systems under Harsh Austerity: A Progress-Regression Mix?
Maria Petmesidou, Emmanuele Pavolini & Ana M. Guillén
4. ‘Social Investment’ or back to ‘Familism’: The impact of the Economic Crisis on Family and Care Policies in Italy and Spain
Margarita León & Emmanuele Pavolini
5. Welfare Performance in Southern Europe: Employment Crisis and Poverty Risk
Rodolfo Gutiérrez
6. The Distributional Impact of Austerity and the Recession in Southern Europe
Manos Matsaganis & Chrysa Leventi
Biography
Maria Petmesidou is Professor of Social Policy at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. She is a fellow of Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and the International Social Science Council.
Ana Marta Guillén is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She is co-chair of Espanet-Spain.
