Continuity and Change in the Welfare State

Social Security in the Republic of Ireland
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-319-96778-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

This book offers an analysis of social security in Ireland from 1981 to 2016 - a period of immense economic and social change during which social provisions such as pensions and family benefits were downsized or diluted in many countries. It considers whether this important area of welfare state provision in Ireland changed, and the extent and pattern of change.  In the first in-depth account of this aspect of social policy In Ireland, the book sets the welfare state in a historical and comparative context and reviews the impact of globalisation, politics and the financial crash on the scope and generosity of social security. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of welfare state politics and comparative social policy as well as to students of Irish social policy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCashin, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Ireland and Welfare State Change.- 2. Understanding Welfare State Change.- 3. The Emergence of Social Security in Ireland.- 4. Social Security in Ireland, 1981-2016, a Framework for Analysis.- 5. Social Security Expenditure and Benefits.- 6. Policy Change: An Interpretive Analysis.- 7. Social Insurance and Path Dependence – A Long Hello to Beveridge.- 8. Continuity and Drift: Child Income Support.- 9. The State Pension: Layering and Retrenchment.- 10. Jobseekers: Conversion from Passive to Active?.- Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony McCashin, formerly Assistant Professor of Social Policy, is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin.