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Social Rights in the Welfare State: Origins and Transformations book cover

1st Edition

Social Rights in the Welfare State Origins and Transformations

Edited By Toomas Kotkas, Kenneth Veitch Copyright 2017
208 Pages
by Routledge

207 Pages
by Routledge

207 Pages
by Routledge
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At a time when the future of the welfare state is the object of heated debate in many European countries, this edited collection explores the relationship between this institution and social rights. Structured around the themes of the politics of social rights, questions of equality and social exclusion/inclusion, and the increasing impact of market imperatives on social policy, the book explores... Read more

Introduction

Part I: The Politics of Social Rights

1. Nordic Welfare States and the Short History of Social Rights Discourse, Toomas Kotkas

2. From Rules to Principles: The Shift towards Individual Social Rights, Malcolm Langford

3. Unemployment and the Obligatory Dimension of Social Rights, Kenneth Veitch

Part II: Social Rights, Equalities, and Inclusions

4. Social Rights and Equality: From Universal Formalism to Individualized Conditionality, Maija Aalto-Heinilä

5. New Social Risks and New Social Rights in the French Welfare System, Philippe Martin

6. Asylum seekers, social rights and the rise of new nationalism: From an inclusive to exclusive British welfare state?, Katie Bales

Part III: Social Rights and the Market

7. From Social Rights to Economic Incentives? The Moral (Re)construction of Welfare Capitalism, Sabine Frerichs

8. Social Rights and User Charges: Resistance or Subsumption?, Amir Paz-Fuchs

9. European integration and the transformation of the ‘social’ state: from symbiosis to dominance, Fernando Losada Fraga

Biography

Toomas Kotkas is Professor of Jurisprudence and Social Law at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland.

Kenneth Veitch is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, UK.

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