The transformation of welfare states? / Nick Ellison.
This accessible work provides a 'political sociology' of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes
- The challenge of globalization
- Globalization and welfare regime change
- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies
- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes
- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems
- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes
- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.