Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe

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Hardcover | 1 October 2005 | Edition Number 1

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The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy assumptions and goals of the key actors is central to this process. This book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.

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'[A] good and enjoyable read...[,] should certainly be considered by anyone interested in welfare reform, ideas, discourses and policy paradigms in Western Europe.' - Social Policy

'This book makes a worthwhile contribution to the debate on the role of ideas in welfare state change...' - Julia S. O'Connor, International Journal of Social Welfare

'...an exposition of an extensive and important piece of research carried out within a rigorously comparative methodology and with carefully developed accounts of its findings.' - Robert Sykes, Social Policy& Administration

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List of Tables	p. viii
List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiii
Ideas and Policy Change	p. 1
The growing prominence of ideas	p. 1
Ideas and social actions	p. 3
Paradigm, discourse and political actors	p. 7
The plan of the book	p. 8
Paradigm Shifts, Power Resources and Labour Market Reform	p. 12
Germany: labour market policy	p. 12
Labour market policy in France	p. 18
Labour market policy in the UK	p. 22
Discourse: a facilitator of paradigm shift in the context of power resources	p. 26
Policy Paradigms and Long-Term Care: Convergence or Continuing Difference?	p. 30
Introduction	p. 30
Identifying policy paradigms in long-term care	p. 30
Analytical tools	p. 31
Three long-term care policy paradigms	p. 32
Have the paradigms evolved significantly?	p. 34
Summary of paradigm change	p. 39
What explains the change or lack of change in the paradigms?	p. 40
Are the paradigms converging?	p. 44
Are there some 'common themes' that the paradigms share?	p. 47
Conclusion	p. 49
The Myth of an Adult Worker Society: New Policy Discourses in European Welfare States	p. 54
Introduction	p. 54
The female workforce and national welfare settlements	p. 55
Changing national policy discourses	p. 57
Recent national policy reforms	p. 59
Agenda one: work family life reforms	p. 61
Second political agenda: equal opportunities policies	p. 71
Conclusion	p. 75
Changing Ideas on Pensions: Accounting for Differences in the Spread of the Multipillar Paradigm in Five EU Social Insurance Countries	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Competing policy paradigms in pension policy	p. 83
Differences in the spread of the multipillar paradigm	p. 86
Accounting for differences in the spread of the multipillar paradigm	p. 90
Summary and outlook	p. 95
Towards Activation? Social Assistance Reforms and Discourses	p. 100
Introduction	p. 100
Social assistance schemes	p. 100
The changing role of social assistance in the era of mass unemployment	p. 103
Major reforms	p. 104
Ideas, discourses and social assistance reforms in the 1990s	p. 112
Conclusion	p. 119
Current Employment Policy Paradigms in the UK, Sweden and Germany	p. 124
Policy paradigms as ideal types	p. 125
UK	p. 127
Sweden	p. 131
Germany	p. 136
Conclusions	p. 140
The Europeanisation of Welfare: Paradigm Shifts and Social Policy Reforms	p. 145
Introduction: concepts and premises	p. 145
Continuity and change in European welfare development	p. 148
EU, an instigator for social policy reform	p. 156
Economic-social and national-EU dichotomies	p. 162
Conclusion	p. 166
Index	p. 176
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