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Welfare and the Welfare State: Central Issues Now and in the Future book cover

2nd Edition

Welfare and the Welfare State Central Issues Now and in the Future

By Bent Greve Copyright 2020
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge
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The welfare state is still very much central in people’s everyday lives. The welfare state is at the same time contested and debated, and has often been argued to be in a crisis not only in the wake of the financial crisis. Welfare and welfare states used to be a national issue and prerogative. Today welfare and welfare states are influenced by national as well as regional and global decisions.... Read more

Part 1: Central Concepts

1. Introduction

2. What Is Welfare? Some Basic Concepts

3. Welfare States and Welfare Regimes

Part 2: State, Market and Civil Society

4. The State

5. Financing the Public Sector

6. The Role of the Market

7. The Labour Market: Employment and Unemployment

8. Civil Society

Part 3: Equality and Specific Groups Position in the Welfare States

9. Poverty, Equality and Inequality

10. Different Groups’ Position in Welfare States

Part 4: Core Social Policy Areas

11. Health Care

12. Long-Term Care

13. Pensions – Important in Old Age

Part 5: New Ways and International Perspectives

14. New Ways of Steering the Welfare State

15. The Role of the EU and Other International Organizations in the Development of Welfare States

16. Is There a Future for the Welfare State?

Biography

Bent Greve is Professor of Welfare State Analysis in the Department of Society and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has published widely on different topics surrounding the welfare state, including technology and the labour market, happiness and social policy, labour market policy, and most recently on populism and the welfare state. He is editor of Social Policy and Administration.

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