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      The Transformation of Welfare States? book

      ByNick Ellison
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2005
      eBook Published 29 November 2005
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203099490
      Pages 240
      eBook ISBN 9780203099490
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Ellison, N. (2005). The Transformation of Welfare States? (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203099490

      ABSTRACT

      This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and the challenges they face.

      This book assesses current debates about the role of ‘globalization’ in welfare state change, paying particular attention to contemporary views about the capacity of embedded institutional structures to limit the effects of global economic pressures. Ellison assesses the changing nature of social policies in nine OECD countries – selected to include ‘liberal, ‘social democratic’ and ‘continental’ welfare regimes. Taking labour market and pension policies as the main areas of investigation, this volume provides ‘snapshots’ of welfare reform in each case, charting the ways in which different regimes ‘manage’ the range of challenges with which they are confronted. Ultimately, the book suggests that all contemporary welfare regimes are experiencing a level of ‘neoliberal drift’. As yet, this trend towards liberalization remains constrained in those countries with more ‘coordinated’ economies and institutionalized forms of social partnership – but the question is for how long?

      This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of International Politics, Sociology and Social Policy.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|22 pages

      ‘Globalization’, Institutions and Welfare Regimes

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      chapter 2|25 pages

      The Challenge of Globalization

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      chapter 3|29 pages

      Globalization and Welfare Regime Change

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      chapter 4|23 pages

      Towards workfare? Changing labour market policies

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      chapter 5|26 pages

      Labour Market Policies In Social Democratic and Continental Regimes

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      chapter 6|26 pages

      Population Ageing, GEPs and Changing Pensions Systems

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      chapter 7|26 pages

      Pensions Policies in Continental and Social Democratic Regimes

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      chapter 8|17 pages

      Conclusion: Welfare Regimes in a Liberalizing World

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