Politics of segmentation
Subtitle: party competition and social protection in Europe
By: Georg Picot
Series: Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare -- 15
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780415665612; 9780203132005
Subjects: Political parties; Political aspects; Social policy; Political planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Party competition and social protection; title: Comparing Italy and Germany; title: Segmentation of unemployment benefits in advanced welfare states today; title: Italy and Germany: policy divergence after World War II; title: Italy and Germany: changing trends during welfare state restructuring; title: Explaining labour market reforms in Italy and Germany; title: Italy and Germany: political driving forces behind different post-war paths; title: Germany: two political logics of segmenting reforms; title: Italy: party system change facilitating de-segmentation; title: Party competition and benefit segmentation across advanced welfare states; title: Conclusions and future research.