1st Edition
Religion, Class, and the Postwar Development of the Dutch Welfare State
By Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Copyright 2018
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how the Netherlands managed to create and maintain one of the world’s most generous and inclusive welfare systems despite having been dominated by Christian-democratic or conservative, rather than socialist dominated governments, for most of the post-war period. It emphasizes that such systems have strong consequences for the distribution of income and risk among different... Read more
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES, LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, PREFACE Part I: HISTORY AND THEORY 1. The Dutch Welfare Puzzle 2. The Politics of Social Solidarity Part II. THE POLITICS OF WELFARE STATE EXPANSION 3. Welfare Reform in the Age of Austerity 4. Welfare State Expansion and the Confessional Preoccupation with Self-help and Personal Responsibility 5. Completing the Social Insurance System 6. Catering to the Low Paid Part III. THE POLITICS OF RETRENCHMENT 7. The Emergence of Welfare Without Work 8. Tackling the Inactivity Crisis 9. Towards an Active Welfare State 10 Population Ageing and the Need for Further Reform Part IV. CONCLUSION 11. The Political Determinants of Solidaristic Reform, Notes, Index
Biography
Dennie Oude Nijhuis (Ph.D., 2009) is assistant professor at Leiden University's Institute for History and senior researcher at the International Institute for Social History (IISH).
