The politics of post-industrial welfare states
Subtitle: adapting post-war welfare states to new social risks
By: edited by Klaus Armingeon and Giuliano Bonoli.
Contributors: Armingeon, K.; Bonoli, Giuliano.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Welfare state -- European Union countries; Public welfare -- European Union countries; European Union countries -- Social policy
Description: "This is the first political science book to focus on new social risks and their implication for politics and policy-making. The welfare states that exist today in most industrial countries were conceived and developed during the post-war years, with the objective of protecting the income of wage-earners against risks such as sickness, unemployment, invalidity or old age. These social risks are still present in today's societies, but they have been supplemented by new social risks, especially in the labour market and family sphere, such as lone parenthood, difficulties in reconciling work and family life, low pay, or long-term unemployment.

In general, however, the welfare states that we have inherited from the post-war years provide only limited coverage against these new risks.".

"This book concentrates on the process of adapting welfare states to changing structures of social risk. First, it looks at how those who are most exposed to the new risks (women, the young, low-skilled workers) mobilise in the political arena and at their demands, then moves on to analyse specific instances of welfare state adaptation in the fields of care policy, pensions and labour market policies. This is a coherent collection of comparative chapters which cover either all, or a sample of, advanced industrial democracies.

Together, they show how difficult the adaptation process is, and in particular because of the existence of strong competing claims for public resources by those political actors who fight for the preservation of the traditional welfare state programmes." "This volume will be of great interest to political scientists working on the EU or OECD countries, focusing on social policy and welfare."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Politics of new social risk; title: New social risks and the politics of post-industrial social policies / Giuliano Bonoli; title: Political parties and new social risks: the double backlash against social democracy and Christian democracy / Hans Keman, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis; title: New social risk and political preferences / Herbert Kitschelt and Philipp Rehm; title: Public attitudes and new social risk reform / Johannes Kananen, Peter Taylor-Gooby and Trine P. Larsen; title: Reconciling competing claims of the welfare state clientele. The politics of old and new social risk coverage in comparative perspective / Klaus Armingeon; title: Trade union movements in post-industrial welfare states. Opening up to new social interests? / Bernhard Ebbinghaus; title: Combatting old and new social risks / Evelyn Huber and John D. Stephens; title: Patterns of policy adaptation; title: New social risks and pension reform in Germany and Sweden: the politics of pension rights for child care / Karen M. Anderson and Traute Meyer; title: New labour market risks and the revision of unemployment protection systems in Europe / Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg; title: Child care policies in diverse European welfare states: Switzerland, Sweden, France and Britain / Anne Daguerre; title: Providing coverage against new social risks in Bismarckian welfare states: the case of long term care / Nathalie Morel; title: The EU and new social risks: the need for a differentiated evaluation / Oliver Treib and Gerda Falkner.