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The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I
The World Politics of Social Investment consists of two companion volumes The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy Volume I introduces social investment and develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms and proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies. The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies Volume II traces the development of social investment reforms across the regions of Nordic, Continental, and Southern Europe; Central and Eastern Europe; North and Latin America; and North East Asia. Book jacket.
The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II
The World Politics of Social Investment consists of two companion volumes The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy Volume I introduces social investment and develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms and proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies. The world Politics of Social Investment: Volume II The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies Volume II traces the development of social investment reforms across the regions of Nordic, Continental, and Southern Europe; Control and Eastern Europe: North and Latin America; and North East Asia. Book jacket.
Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia
Providing original observations, this seminal text analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Experts explore the roads and barriers towards effective social investment policies, derive practical social policy implications and highlight important lessons for future social policymaking.
Teaching Social Policy
Drawing together international perspectives and disciplinary sub-fields of comparative and global social policy, this book provides an insightful guide for educators and academics embarking on or revisiting the design and teaching of classes, courses and programmes in and around social and public policy.
How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across the Western world. This book shows how they have used their political power to reform economic and social policies in Continental Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and the USA. In doing so, it argues that the radical right's core ideology of nativism and authoritarianism informs their socio-economic policy preferences. However, diverse welfare state contexts mediate their socio-economic policy impacts along regime-specific lines, leading to variations of trade protectionism, economic nationalism, traditional familialism, labour market dual...
Youth Participation in Democratic Life
This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young people in European democratic life. The authors understand democracy broadly as both institutional politics and civic cultures, and a wide range of methods are used to analyse and assess youth participation and attitudes.
Inscribing Solidarity
This volume offers insights into the consequences of a growing reliance on the principle of solidarity to 'inscribe' social policies.
Strong Governments, Precarious Workers
Why do some European welfare states protect unemployed and inadequately employed workers ("outsiders") from economic uncertainty better than others? Philip Rathgeb’s study of labor market policy change in three somewhat-similar small states—Austria, Denmark, and Sweden—explores this fundamental question. He does so by examining the distribution of power between trade unions and political parties, attempting to bridge these two lines of research—trade unions and party politics—that, with few exceptions, have advanced without a mutual exchange. Inclusive trade unions have high political stakes in the protection of outsiders, because they incorporate workers at risk of unemployment in...
Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies
This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy. The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on actors. The mechanism-based approach then guides the twelve chapters on social policy developments in different Asian, African, European and Latin American countries. Based on these findings, the concluding chapter provides a structured compilation of causal mechanisms and outlines how a mechanism-based approach can further strengthen research on the global development of social policies, especially in a comparative perspective. The edited volume is highly relevant for social policy scholars from a variety of disciplines, as well as for scholars interested in strengthening explanation in the social sciences.
Handbook of Public Policy Implementation
In this comprehensive Handbook, international experts examine theoretical and empirical research to analyse a core element of the public policy process: implementation. Traversing numerous sub-disciplines and traditions including top-down and bottom-up approaches to public policy implementation research, the chapters present a synthesis of the state of scholarship and stimulate future thinking in the field.
