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Title A long goodbye to Bismarck? : the politics of welfare reforms in continental Europe / Bruno Palier, editor
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations
Series Changing welfare states
Changing welfare states.
Contents Prologue : what does it mean to break with Bismarck? / Gøsta Esping-Andersen -- Ordering change : understanding the 'Bismarckian' welfare reform trajectory / Bruno Palier -- A social insurance state withers away. Welfare state reforms in germany -- or, Attempts to turn around in a cul-de-sac / Karl Hinrichs -- The dualizations of the French welfare system / Bruno Palier -- Janus-faced developments in a prototypical Bismarckian welfare state : welfare reforms in Austria since the 1970s / Herbert Obinger and Emmerich Tálos -- Continental welfare at a crossroads : the choice between activation and minimum income protection in Belgium and the Netherlands / Anton Hemerijck and Ive Marx -- Italy : an uncompleted departure from Bismarck / Matteo Jessoula and Tiziana Alti -- Defrosting the Spanish welfare state : the weight of conservative components / Ana Guillén -- Reform opportunities in a Bismarckian latecomer : restructuring the Swiss welfare state / Silja Häusermann -- The politics of social security reforms in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia / Alfio Cerami -- Reforming Bismarckian corporatism : the changing role of social partnership in continental Europe / Bernhard Ebbinghaus -- Trajectories of fiscal adjustment in Bismarckian welfare systems / Philip Manow -- Whatever happened to the Bismarckian welfare state? From labor shedding to employment-friendly reforms / Anton Hemerijck and Werner Eichhorst -- The long conservative corporatist road to welfare reforms / Bruno Palier
Summary The best available up-to-date scholarship in comparative socio-economic research in welfare state reform
Analysis Public administration
Economics
Political science
Bestuurskunde
Economie
Politicologie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-437) and index
Notes English
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In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Subject Public welfare -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Public welfare -- Europe -- History -- 21st century
Society and social sciences.
Politics and government.
Economics, finance, business and management.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Comparative Politics.
Public welfare
Verzorgingsstaat.
Hervormingen.
Europe
Europa (geografie)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Palier, Bruno.
LC no. 2010540497
ISBN 9789048512454
904851245X