By Mel Cousins
Bringing jointly a dialogue of the theories and methods of comparative coverage research and an outline of present advancements in chosen welfare kingdom regimes, European Welfare States offers an obtainable review of concerns bearing on eu welfare states.
In specific, it provides:
- an outline of the improvement of welfare states in Europe;
- a dialogue of key matters together with welfare kingdom theories, the position of globalization, gender and the welfare nation; welfare typologies; and the function of public opinion;
- a close account of modern advancements and present demanding situations in 5 ecu welfare states; and
- an in depth account of the main demanding situations dealing with eu welfare states and attainable destiny instructions for welfare types together with the position of the ecu Union within the improvement of social policy.
This booklet is illustrated all through with student-friendly positive factors reminiscent of case-studies, bankruptcy summaries, questions for dialogue and courses for extra analyzing. With a flowing narrative and transparent constitution the ebook is a useful textual content for undergraduates taking classes in comparative social coverage. it is going to even be beneficial for college students in similar disciplines similar to public coverage, social welfare, politics and diplomacy.
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This, he argues, can best be conceived of as consisting of three tiers (or three cumulative arenas of conflict). The first and most visible is the arena of political decision making within the state apparatus. Here the actors are the political elites competing with each other for electoral victories and scarce resources who decide on social policy programmes, legislation and budgets. This, he points out, is the most superficial and most visible level of politics and is the level at which analysis tends to focus.
The key texts in the development of welfare state theorising are set out in the relevant sections of this chapter. Important contributions include Baldwin’s (1990) excellent account of the development of welfare policies in a number of European countries, which adopts a class coalition approach; a modified application of the social-democratic approach by Hicks (1999); and Huber and Stephens (2001), which usefully bring together a number of theoretical approaches. qxd 9/1/2005 10:01 AM Page 41 THREE GLOBALISATION AND EUROPEAN WELFARE STATES This chapter focuses on the wealth of recent writing on globalisation and outlines the (often conflicting) approaches.
However, the massive occupational shift which has been and is taking place in most advanced nations from manufacturing to service employment threatens to undermine that productivity growth. While the precise levels of productivity growth in the different sectors may be open to question, Pierson argues that it is highly unlikely that services will be able to match the productivity growth typical of manufacturing. Inevitably, Pierson argues, this will lead to slower economic growth over time. This in turn will generate ‘acute problems for welfare states’ (2001: 86).