Description
Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating, mobilizing, and preserving human skills and capabilities. Yet, there is massive variance in the development of social investment strategies.The World Politics of Social Investment: Welfare States in the 21st Century is the first of two volumes of the World Politics of Social Investment (WOPSI) project, which systematically maps and explains different welfare reform strategies in democratic countries around the world. This volume develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, and studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms (and non-social investment reforms). It also proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies, distinguishing nine types of social investment strategies depending on their functions (creating, mobilizing and preserving human skill and capabilities) and their distributive profiles (inclusive, stratified or targeted), and three types of non-social investment welfare strategies (market liberalism, social protectionism and basic income). The chapters of this volume are written by leading social policy scholars from different disciplines and countries, who apply the WOPSI global theoretical framework in a range of contexts and policy fields, shedding light on the scope conditions of social investment, as well as political demand- and supply-side drivers of social investment reforms. This volume on its own or in conjunction with the second volume is an invaluable resource on the state of modern welfare and social investment policies from around the globe.
Table of Contents
1. Towards a Worldwide View on the Politics of Social InvestmentBruno Palier, Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann2. The Politics of Social Investment: A Global Theoretical FrameworkSilja Häusermann, Julian L. Garritzmann, Bruno PalierPart I: The Ideational Context of Social Investment Politics3. Multiple Sources of the Social Investment Perspective: The OECD and the World BankJane Jenson, Rianne Mahon4. The Politics of European Union Social Investment InitiativesCaroline de la Porte, Bruno PalierPart II: The Political and Economic Scope Conditions of Social Investment Reforms5. Social Investment and Social Assistance in Low- and Middle-Income CountriesArmando Barrientos6. Political Linkage Strategies and Social Investment Policies: Clientelism and Educational Policy in the Developing WorldHaohan Chen, Herbert Kitschelt7. State Capacity and Social Investment: Explaining Variation in Skills Creation Reforms in Latin AmericaJuan Bogliaccini, Aldo Madariaga8. The Emergence of Knowledge Economies: Educational Expansion, Labor Market Changes, and the Politics of Social InvestmentJulian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Thomas Kurer, Bruno Palier, Michael PinggeraPart III: Demand for and Supply of Social Investment - Public Opinion and Social Partners' Social Investment Policy Preferences9. Employers and Social Investment in Three European Countries: The Good, the Bad and the UglyEmmanuele Pavolini, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser10. Social (Investment) Partners? Trade Unions and the Welfare State for the Knowledge EconomyNiccolo Durazzi, Leonard Geyer11. Trade Unions, Labor Market Dualization, and Investment in Early Childhood Education and Care in Latin AmericaMelina Altamirano, Bárbara Zárate-Tenorio12. Public Preferences Towards Social Investment: Comparing Patterns of Support Across Three ContinentsBjörn BremerPart IV: The Comparative Politics of Social Investment Reforms13. Social Investment and Neoliberal Legacies in Latin America: Breaking the Mold?Evelyne Huber, Claire Dunn, John D. Stephens14. Different Paths to Social Investment? The Politics of Social Investment in North-East Asia and Southern EuropeMargarita Estévez-Abe, Margarita León15. Social Investment or Childcare on the Cheap? Quality, Workforce, and Access Considerations in the Expansion of Early Childhood Education and CareKimberly Morgan16. The Politics of Social Investment in the Knowledge Economy: Analytical Insights from a Global ComparisonJulian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier
