基本説明
Publication delayed (Originally scheduled in Decwmber 2004). Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe.
Full Description
There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe.
The book applies a dynamic and change oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding social change.
Using citizenship as a focus, several dimensions of change are analysed simultaneously: changes in the discipline of social policy itself; the changing character of social problems; changes in social policy and citizenship; and the emergence of new forms of social integration. The book also speculates on how different dimensions of change are interlinked.
Contents
'Active citizenship': the new face of welfare ‾ Per H. Jensen and Birgit Pfau-Effinger; The goals of social policy: context and change ‾ Adrian Sinfield; Which way for the European social model: minimum standards or social quality? ‾ Alan Walker; The advent of a flexible life course and the reconfigurations of welfare ‾ Anne-Marie Guillemard; Citizenship, unemployment and welfare policy ‾ Jørgen Goul Andersen; Paradoxes of democracy: the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion ‾ Marina Calloni; Citizenship and the activation of social protection: a comparative approach ‾ Jean-Claude Barbier; The active society and activation policy: ideologies, contexts and effects ‾ Jørgen Elm Larsen; Individualising citizenship ‾ Asmund W. Born and Per H. Jensen; Gender equality, citizenship and welfare state restructuring ‾ Birte Siim; New forms of citizenship and social integration in European societies ‾ Birgit Pfau-Effinger; The outcomes of early retirement in Nordic countries ‾ Laura Saurama; The role of early exit from the labour market in social exclusion and marginalisation: the case of the United Kingdom ‾ Philip Taylor; The emergence of social movements by social security claimants ‾ Rune Halvorsen; Conclusion: policy change, welfare regimes and active citizenship ‾ Jørgen Goul Andersen and Anne-Marie Guillemard.
