The culture of welfare markets
Subtitle: the international recasting of pension and care systems
By: Ingo Bode.
Series: Routledge advances in sociology -- 35
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780415958011
Subjects: Pensions -- Western countries -- Case studies; Older people -- Services for -- Western countries -- Case studies; Welfare state -- Economic aspects -- Western countries
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Welfare markets: institutional forms and organizational landscapes; title: Welfare markets in old age provision: the state of things; title: Where the market comes in: current institutional designs; title: Britain: markets as driving forces; title: Canada: markets in uneasy co-existence; title: Germany: markets as successful newcomers; title: France: markets as a disguised reality at the margins; title: A brief comparative assessment; title: How welfare markets develop: the dynamics of change; title: Britain: radicalization with nuance; title: Canada: the creeping end of defined utility; title: Germany: slow but thorough; title: France: ever more through the backdoor; title: The role of (welfare) culture: the state of the art and an analytical grid; title: Ghe culture of welfare, the culture of market; title: The case of old age provision; title: Key moral issues in pension and care systems; title: Sense-making of welfare markets for old age; title: The study: the general approach, research design and methodological questions; title: Sense-making in public debate and the media; title: Britain; title: Canada; title: Germany; title: France; title: Making sense of sense-making: hybrid settlements compared; title: Conclusion: a new moral economy of old age provision?; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index.