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‘The welfare state’ in all its many forms has had a profound role in many countries around the world since at least the Second World War. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State explores the classical issues around the welfare state, but also investigates its key concepts, along with how these can be used and analysed. Over forty contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The book combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive picture of what ‘the welfare state’ means around the world. In the midst of the credit crunch, the Handbook addresses some of the many questions about the welfare state. It will be an invaluable reference book for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, international relations, politics, and gender studies.

Table of Contents:
Introduction. Part 1: Key Concepts 1. What Is Welfare and Public Welfare 2. What Is a Welfare State? 3. Fiscal Welfare 4. Occupational Welfare 5. Citizenship 6. Prevention: The Cases of Social Security and Health Care 7. Poverty 8. Social Exclusion 9. Benefits In Kind and In Cash 10. Gender Issues in Welfare States 11. Welfare States and the Life Course 12. Active Labour Market Policies 13. Flexicurity: Concepts, Practices and Outcomes Part 2: Typologies and Methods 14. What Are Welfare Typologies and How Are They Useful, If At All? 15. Nordic Welfare States 16. Central European Welfare States 17. Eastern Europe 18. Southern Europe 19. Liberal Welfare States 20. Third Way 21. Welfare States in North America: Social Citizenship in the United States, Canada and Mexico 22. Welfare State Changes in China Since 1949 23. Inequality and Social Policy in Latin America: A New Analytical Framework 24. The Middle East 25. Africa 26. States of Health: Welfare Regimes, Health and Health Care 27. How to Analyze Welfare States and Their Development? 28. Drivers for Change 29. Real-Typical and Ideal-Typical Methods in Comparative Social Policy 30. Fiscal crisis, Financial crisis and the Great Recession Part 3: Central Policy Areas 31. Social Security 32. Housing, Housing Policy and Inequality 33. Healthcare 34. Old Age – Including Pensions 35. Disability 36. Family Policies 37. Risk and the Management of Crime 38. Financing the Welfare State and the Politics of Taxation 39. Social OMCs: Ideas, Policies and Effects 40. Evaluation, Evidence and Review Part 4: Future 41. Future of the Welfare State?

About the Author :
Bent Greve is professor in Social Science at the Department of Society and Globalisation, University of Roskilde, Denmark. He studies the welfare state, often in a comparative perspective. His main research interests include the welfare state, social policy, labour market policy and financing the welfare state.

Review :
"As a library reference source, [the collection] should be widely consulted and cited by students and researchers. The 41 chapters are all accessibly written and structured, and the scholarship is consistently reliable. The contributors offer coherent and reflective accounts of their topics within a somewhat confining word length of, mostly, between 3000 and 4000 words. [...] It is good to see less conventionally prominent topics given an airing such as flexicurity, risk and the management of crime, Open Method of Coordination (OMC), prevention, the life course, the Third Way, and the Middle East." - Critical Social Policy


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781136190230
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 474
  • Series Title: Routledge International Handbooks
  • ISBN-10: 1136190236
  • Publisher Date: 12 Dec 2012
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 474


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