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Reforming the Bismarckian welfare systems / edited by Bruno Palier and Claude Martin.

Contributor(s): Palier, Bruno | Martin, Claude, 1955- | Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextSeries: Broadening perspectives on social policyPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008Description: 1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444306798; 1444306790; 9781444306804; 1444306804Subject(s): Public welfare -- Europe | Welfare state | Europe -- Social policy | Public welfare | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services | Public welfare | Social policy | Welfare state | Europe | Wohlfahrtsstaat | Reform | Sozialpolitik | Europa | Sociale politiek | Verzorgingsstaat | Poldermodel | Hervormingen | Vergelijkend onderzoek | EuropaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reforming the Bismarckian welfare systems.DDC classification: 361.6/8094 LOC classification: HV238 | .R45 2008Other classification: 71.80 Online resources: Wiley Online Library

Contents:

From 'a frozen landscape' to structural reforms: the sequential transformation of Bismarckian welfare systems / Bruno Palier and Claude Martin -- When past reforms open new opportunities: comparing old-age insurance reforms in Bismarckian welfare systems / Giuliano Bonoli and Bruno Palier -- Towards Neo-Bismarckian health care states? Comparing health insurance reforms in Bismarckian welfare systems / Patrick Hassenteufel and Bruno Palier -- Continental drift: on unemployment policy change in Bismarckian welfare states / Daniel Clegg -- From subsidiarity to 'free choice': child- and elder-care policy reforms in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands / Nathalie Morel -- Activation as a common framework for social policies towards lone parents / Trudie Knijn, Claude Martin, and Jane Millar -- Long-term care policies in Italy, Austria and France: variations in cash-for-care schemes / Barbara Da Roit, Blanche Le Bihan, and August Österle -- Family policies in Germany and France: the role of enterprises and social partners / Ute Klammer and Marie-Thérèse Letablier.

Summary: Gathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes.: Demonstrates that, contrary to the common view, 'Bismarckian' welfare states have changed significantly; Contains long term but also very accurate data and perspective beginning from the 1980s and up to the most recent reforms; Speaks to two literatures: the one on welfare state, social policies and welfare state reforms; the other to the politi.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes.: Demonstrates that, contrary to the common view, 'Bismarckian' welfare states have changed significantly; Contains long term but also very accurate data and perspective beginning from the 1980s and up to the most recent reforms; Speaks to two literatures: the one on welfare state, social policies and welfare state reforms; the other to the politi.

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