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The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States: Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks book cover

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The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks

Edited By Klaus Armingeon, Giuliano Bonoli Copyright 2006
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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This new study assesses the welfare state to ask key questions and draw new conclusions about its place in modern society. It shows how the welfare states that we have inherited from the early post-war years had one main objective: to protect the income of the male breadwinner. Today, however, massive social change, in particular the shift from industrial to post-industrial societies and... Read more

PART I: POLITICS OF NEW SOCIAL RISK

1 New social risks and the politics of post-industrial social policies

Giuliano Bonoli

2 Political parties and new social risks: The double backlash against Social Democracy and Christian Democracy

Hans Keman, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis

3 New social risk and political preferences

Herbert Kitschelt and Philipp Rehm

4 Public attitudes and new social risk reform

Johannes Kananen, Peter Taylor-Gooby and Trine P. Larsen

5 Reconciling competing claims of the welfare state clientele. The politics of old and new social risk coverage in comparative perspective

Klaus Armingeon

6 Trade union movements in post-industrial welfare states. Opening up to new social interests?

Bernhard Ebbinghaus

7 Combatting old and new social risks

Evelyn Huber and John D. Stephens

Part 2: PATTERNS OF POLICY ADAPTATION

8 New social risks and pension reform in Germany and Sweden: The politics of pension rights for child care

Karen M. Anderson and Traute Meyer

9 New labour market risks and the revision of unemployment protection systems in Europe

Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg

10 Child care policies in diverse European welfare states: Switzerland, Sweden, France and Britain

Anne Daguerre

11 Providing coverage against new social risks in Bismarckian welfare states: The case of long term care

Nathalie Morel

12 The EU and New Social Risks: The Need for a Differentiated Evaluation

Oliver Treib and Gerda Falkner

Biography

Klaus Armingeon, Giuliano Bonoli

'A coherent collection of comparative chapters which cover either all or a sample of advanced industrial democracies.' - International Social Security Review, Vol. 59

'Concerntrates on the process of adapting welfare states to changing structures of social risks. First, looks at how those who are most exposed to the new risks (women, the young, low-skilled workers) mobilize in the political arena and examines their demands, then moves on to analyze specific instances of welfare state adaptation in the fields of care policy, pensions and labour market policies.'

- International Social Security Review, Vol. 59

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