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Cover Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State
Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State
Bent Greve

Bent Greve critically considers thinking on the core elements of welfare states, how they should be ranked and how to recognise indicators of their direction of movement. Providing expert analysis of the historical development of welfare states and the challenges and pressures experienced both regionally and globally, this book argues for a new division of welfare states and a system for balancing old and new social risk.

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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
06 May 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885127
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Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover Handbook on Migration and Welfare
Handbook on Migration and Welfare
Editor:
Markus M.L. Crepaz
Bringing together prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex interrelationship between migration and welfare. Chapters further examine the effects of emigration on sending societies exploring issues such as the impact of remittances, diasporas, and skill deterioration as a result of human capital flight on capacity building and on economic and political development more generally.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
14 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104572
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Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover The Politicisation of Social Europe
The Politicisation of Social Europe
Conflict Dynamics and Welfare Integration
Francesco Corti
While for some scholars the Euro crisis dashed the dream of Social Europe, this thought-provoking book proposes a more nuanced assessment, challenging the notion of austerity as the only way forward. Tracing the evolution of the political debate on European social integration and its interplay with the European economic governance after the Euro crisis, it sheds light on the conflict dynamics and political conditions that enabled the progressive shift away from the initial post-crisis EU ‘conservative reflex’, towards a new European holding environment for flourishing welfare states.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
14 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885264
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Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover Nationalism and Democracy in the Welfare State
Nationalism and Democracy in the Welfare State
Editors:
Pauli Kettunen
,
Saara Pellander
, and
Miika Tervonen

This multidisciplinary book unpacks and outlines the contested roles of nationalism and democracy in the formation and transformation of welfare-state institutions and ideologies. At a time when neo-liberal, post-national and nationalist visions alike have challenged democratic welfare nationalism, the book offers a transnational historical perspective to the political dynamics of current changes. While particularly focusing on Nordic countries, often seen as the quintessential ‘models’ of the welfare state, the book collectively sheds light on the ‘history of the present’ of nation states bearing the character of a welfare state.

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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
11 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976589
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Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover Challenges to the Welfare State
Challenges to the Welfare State
Family and Pension Policies in the Baltic and Nordic Countries
Editors:
Jolanta Aidukaite
,
Sven E.O. Hort
, and
Stein Kuhnle
This comprehensive and innovative book demonstrates the dynamics of welfare policies in different socioeconomic settings by providing comparative analyses of the Baltic and Nordic welfare state systems. The book contributes to finding and reflecting upon innovative solutions to common challenges in European welfare states.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106118
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Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State
Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State
Editor:
Bent Greve
This innovative Handbook presents the core concepts associated with austerity, retrenchment and populism and explores how they can be used to analyse developments in different welfare states and in specific social policies. Leading experts highlight how these concepts have influenced and changed welfare states around the globe and impacted specific areas including pensions, long-term care, the labour market, taxation, social activism and gender equality.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
11 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906745
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Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Myths, Narratives and Welfare States
Myths, Narratives and Welfare States
The Impact of Stories on Welfare State Development
Bent Greve
This unique book explores the question of whether different myths and narratives have an impact on the development of welfare states. After discussing the various definitions of ‘myths’ and ‘narratives’, Bent Greve disentangles their relationship with the welfare state, referring also to debates on welfare chauvinism, deservingness and retrenchment.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
08 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107924
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Poverty, Crisis and Resilience
Poverty, Crisis and Resilience
Editors:
Marie Boost
,
Jennifer Dagg
,
Jane Gray
, and
Markus Promberger
Poverty remains a problem in Europe, raising the need for new solutions. In this thought-provoking book the contributors delve deeply into the everyday lives of poor households to see which practices and resources they apply to improve their situations. One of the book’s key findings is that social resilience requires a functioning welfare state operating at an increased level. In addition to sufficient welfare transfers, there is a need for low-commodified common goods to be made available not only for the registered poor but all low-income households.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
08 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973205
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Transportation and the State
Transportation and the State
Governing the Public Domain
Hans Keman
and
Jaap J. Woldendorp
This book analyses the role of the national state, as organiser of its territory and governor of its infrastructure, since it emerged in the 19th Century. It presents a cross-time analysis of eight emerging democratic states during the transport revolution, focussing on railway systems. The book explores how the intervention state regulated society in Europe and Australia since the Industrial Revolution. The authors conclude that these state capacities are still governing the public domain, also at the level of the EU.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
06 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112956
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Corporatism since the Great Recession
Corporatism since the Great Recession
Challenges to Tripartite Relations in Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria
Mikkel Mailand
In the comparative study of Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria, Mikkel Mailand explores the roles of social partners in regulating work and welfare through corporatist arrangements. This insightful book illustrates how the frequency of tripartite agreements has either been stable or has increased since the Great Recession of 2008, in spite of challenges from trade unions’ loss of power and political developments. It will be an invaluable read for academics and students in industrial relations, political economy and other social science disciplines addressing the formulation of work and welfare related policies.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
11 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114561
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Social and Political Science 2020