Welfare State Transformations: Comparative Perspectives

This edited volume provides new empirical evidence of far-reaching changes to welfare states globally, which have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private' domain within the mixed economies of welfare. Various modes of policy intervention are investigated, providing a nuanced account of reforms in the past decade.

Table of Contents:
Shifting Boundaries of 'Public and Private'; M.Seeleib-Kaiser PART I: STATE PERSPECTIVES Welfare State Reforms in the United Kingdom; M. Powell Welfare State Transformations in an Affluent Scandinavian State: The Case of Denmark; J.Goul-Andersen The Public-Private Mix in Southern Europe: What Changed in the Last Decade?; A.Guillen& M.Petmesidou Metamorphoses of Welfare States in Central and Eastern Europe; M.Potucek The State of Japanese Welfare: Welfare and the Japanese State; R.Goodman PART II: POLICY PERSPECTIVES Politically Dominant but Socially Flawed: Projected Pension Levels for Citizens at Risk in Six European Multi- Pillar Pension Systems; P.Bridgen& T.Meyer The Changing Public-Private Mix in OECD Healthcare Systems; H.Rothgang, M.Cacace, L.Frisina& A.Schmid From Liberal Statism to Statist Liberalism: The Transformation of Unemployment Policies in Europe; D.Clegg The Transformation of Incapacity Benefits; P.Kemp The 'Public' and 'Private' of Work-Family Reconciliation: Unsettling Gendered Notions and Assumptions; D.Ben-Galim& R.Gambles PART III: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND CONCLUSION Reconstructing Nation, State and Welfare: The Transformation of Welfare States; J.Clarke Conclusion; M.Seeleib-Kaiser

About the Author :
JØURGEN GOUL ANDERSEN Professor of Political Sociology and Director of the Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies (CCWS) at Aalborg University, Denmark DALI BEN-GALIM D.Phil Candidate in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford, UK PAUL BRIDGEN Senior Lecturer in social policy at the University of Southampton, UK MIRELLA CACACE Research Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate at the Collaborative Research Center 597 'Transformations of the State' at the University of Bremen, Germany JOHN CLARKE Professor of Social Policy at the Open University, UK DANIEL CLEGG Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK LORRAINE FRISINA Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Institute 597 'Transformations of the State' at the University of Bremen, Germany RICHENDA GAMBLES Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, UK ROGER GOODMAN Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford, UK ANA M. GUIILÉN Professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, Spain PETER A. KEMP Barnett Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work and a Professorial Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford, UK TRAUTE MEYER Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Southampton, UK MARIA PETMESIDOU Professor of Social Policy at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece MARTI POT??EK Professor of Public and Social Policy and Head of the Center for Social and Economic Strategies at Charles University Prague, Czech Republic MARTIN POWELL Professor of Health and Social Policy at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, UK HEINZ ROTHGANG Professor of Health Economics at the University Bremen and Director of the Division for Health Economics, Health Policy and Outcomes Research, Centre for Social Policy Research, Bremen, Germany ACHIM SCHMID Research Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate at the Collaborative Research Center 597 'Transformations of the State' at the University of Bremen, Germany

Review :
'a good starting point for researchers who want to embark upon research in welfare state change over the past decades' - Journal of European Social Policy 'an outstanding contribution to the literature on welfare state reforms' - Medical Sociology Online 'the book provides an interesting account of the relationship between public and private financing, provision and regulation of welfare. Its comparative nature gives the reader a quick but broad insight into different forms of welfare mixes and policy enactments. Especially, its European focus and contrast with Japan and other countries distinguishes it from other books in this area.' - European Societies