The Welfare State as Crisis Manager [electronic resource] : Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis /
Starke, Peter.author.
Kaasch, Alexandra.author.
Hooren, Franca van.author.
This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment are shaped by domestic politics and existing welfare state institutions.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Crisis and the state""; ""Social policy and crisis management: Research questions and design""; ""Crisis and change""; ""The partisan politics of crisis management""; ""Crises as critical junctures""; ""Crises as transnational events""; ""The argument in brief""; ""The structure of the book""; ""2 The Politics of Crisis Response""; ""A focus on the welfare state and crisis management""; ""Mapping crisis responses""
""Expansion or retrenchment? Explaining the direction of change""""Fundamental or incremental responses? Explaining the quality of change""; ""Research design and methods""; ""3 How the Countries Compare""; ""Political system""; ""System of interest intermediation""; ""Welfare state""; ""4 The Oil Shocks of 1973 and 1979: Keynesianism and Beyond""; ""Global economic situation""; ""International intellectual climate""; ""The countries compared""; ""Summary: Culmination of two shocks leading to change""; ""5 Recession in the 1990s: The Resistible Rise of Neoliberalism""
""Global economic situation""""International intellectual climate""; ""The countries compared""; ""Summary: Developments in different directions""; ""6 Managing the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and Its Aftermath: The Role of Social Policy""; ""Global economic situation""; ""International intellectual climate""; ""The countries compared""; ""Summary: A temporary revival of the welfare state?""; ""7 Conclusion""; ""The welfare state as crisis manager: Diverse responses to similar problems""; ""The conditional impact of partisan ideology""
""Crises as critical junctures? The importance of crisis routines""""Are large countries different?""; ""Implications for the study of public policy""; ""Preparing for the next crisis: Welfare state resilience revisited""; ""Appendix 1: Party Systems""; ""Appendix 2: Governmental Majorities""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment are shaped by domestic politics and existing welfare state institutions.
Welfare state.
Public finance.
Comparative politics.
Social policy.
Social service .
Political science.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Public Economics.
Comparative Politics.
Social Policy.
Social Care.
Political Science.