The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-965051-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 908 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1589 g

Reihe: Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The Handbook is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the
welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state
embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalization. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty,
macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state.

The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of political science, social policy, and political economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pierson, Christopher

Castles, Francis G.

Leibfried, Stephan

Obinger, Herbert

Lewis, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures
About the Contributors
Stephan Leibfried: Preface
Stephan Leibfried: A Note on the Jacket Illustration
1: Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson: Introduction
Part I Philosophical Justifications and Critiques of the Welfare State
2: Stuart White: Ethics
3: Christopher Pierson and Matthieu Leimgruber: Intellectual Roots
4: Desmond King & Fiona Ross: Critics and Beyond
Part II History
5: Stein Kuhnle & Anne Sander: The Emergence of the Western Welfare State
6: Frank Nullmeier & Frank-Xaver Kaufmann: Post-War Welfare State Development
Part III Approaches
7: Edwin Amenta & Alexander Hicks: Research Methods
8: Willem Adema & Peter Whiteford: Public and Private Social Welfare
9: Mary Daly: Families versus State and Market
10: Einar Øverbye: Disciplinary Perspectives
Part IV Inputs and Actors
11: Jan Zutavern & Martin Kohli: Needs and Risks
12: Torben Iversen: Democracy and Capitalism
13: Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Unions and Employers
14: Manfred G. Schmidt: Parties
15: Ellen M. Immergut: Political Institutions
16: Stefan Svallfors: Public Attitudes
17: Ann Shola Orloff: Gender
18: Kees van Kersbergen & Philip Manow: Religion
19: Stephen Castles & Carl-Ulrik Schierup: Migration and Ethnic Minorities
20: Gerda Falkner: European Union
21: Klaus Armingeon: Intergovernmental Organizations
22: Duane Swank: Globalization
Part V Policies
23: Herbert Obinger & Uwe Wagschal: Social Expenditure and Revenues
24: Karl Hinrichs & Julia Lynch: Old-Age Pensions
25: Richard Freeman & Heinz Rothgang: Health
26: August Oesterle & Heinz Rothgang: Long-term Care
27: Olli Kangas: Work Accident and Sickness Benefits
28: Mark Priestley: Disability
29: Joakim Palme, Eero Carroll & Ola Sjöberg: Unemployment Insurance
30: Lane Kenworthy: Labour Market Activation
31: Thomas Bahle, Michaela Pfeifer & Claus Wendt: Social Assistance
32: Jonathan Bradshaw & Naomi Finch: Family Benefits and Services
33: Tony Fahey & Michelle Norris: Housing
34: Marius R. Busemeyer & Rita Nikolai: Education
Part VI Policy Outcomes
35: John Stephens: Social Rights of Citizenship
36: Peter Saunders: Inequality and Poverty
37: Isabela Mares: Macroeconomic Outcomes
38: Jonah Levy: Welfare Retrenchment
Part VII Worlds of Welfare
39: Wilhelm A. Arts & John Gelissen: Models of the Welfare State
Established Welfare States
40: Mikko Kautto: The Nordic Countries
41: Bruno Palier: Continental Western Europe
42: Maurizio Ferrera: The South European Countries
43: Francis G. Castles: The English-speaking Countries
Emerging Welfare States
44: Evelyne Huber & Juan Bogliaccini: Latin America
45: Ito Peng & Joseph Wong: East Asia
46: Linda. J. Cook: Eastern Europe and Russia
Part VIII Prospects
47: Howard Glennerster: The Sustainability of Western Welfare States
48: Ian Gough & Goran Therborn: The Global Future of Welfare States

Über Autor(innen)

Francis G. Castles is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and at the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) in Bremen.

Stephan Leibfried is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Bremen, Director of the Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the State" (TranState) and member of the Unit History and Institutions of the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) there.

Jane Lewis is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Herbert Obinger is Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy at the University of Bremen, directs the Unit History and Institutions of the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) and directs two projects in the Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the State" (TranState).

Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham and Director of Teaching and Lead Editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.