1st Edition
The Culture of Welfare Markets The International Recasting of Pension and Care Systems
By Ingo Bode
Copyright 2008
264 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular field of old age provision, including both retirement provision and elderly care. It goes beyond a mere social policy analysis by investigating major cultural underpinnings of the new (quasi-)markets, with these underpinnings embracing... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Welfare Markets: Institutional Forms and Organizational Landscapes 3. Welfare Markets in Old Age Provision: The State of Things 4. The Role of (Welfare) Culture: The State of the Art and an Analytical Grid 5. Sense-Making of Welfare Markets for Old Age
Biography
Bode is a sociologist, independent researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Sociology of the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has also taught at the University of Montréal, at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, and at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent.
