Resilient welfare states in the European Union /

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The European welfare systems, established after the Second World War, have been under sustained attack since the late 1970s from the neoliberal drive towards a small state and the market as the tool for efficient allocation of resources. Indeed, after the 2008 crash, Europe's overprotective wel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hemerijck, A. (Anton) (Autor), Huguenot-Noël, Robin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2022.
Colección:Comparative political economy.
Temas:
Welfare state > European Union countries.
État providence > Pays de l'Union européenne.
Social policy.
Welfare state.
Welfare state
European Union countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Figures, tables and equations
  • Foreword
  • 1 The comeback of the welfare state
  • Covid-19 and the false necessity of the equity and efficiency trade-off
  • Resilient welfare states in the twenty-first century
  • The merits of institutional analysis
  • Outline of the book
  • 2 Welfare recalibration under E(M)U integration
  • Beyond inescapable trade-offs and trilemmas
  • Welfare state expansion and E(M)U market integration
  • Welfare state performance at a glance
  • Employment performance, age and gender
  • Social investment, robust families, training and education
  • Reform pathways, sticking points and roadblocks
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Social investment and secure capabilities
  • Introduction
  • Welfare paradigms in motion
  • The Beveridgean-Keynesian welfare state
  • The neoliberal critique of the interventionist welfare state
  • The social investment turn
  • The welfare state's carrying capacity
  • Beyond redistribution and social insurance
  • The work-family life course
  • Stocks, flows and buffers in "institutional complementarity"
  • Life course multiplier
  • Social investment critics
  • The normative heart of the social investment paradigm
  • Social rights as positive freedoms
  • The good polity and distributive justice
  • The good life and capacitation
  • Secure capabilities and "fertile functionings"
  • Stepping stone solidarity
  • Logic of (welfare) state intervention
  • Time horizon
  • Governance
  • 4 Towards a eurozone insurance union
  • Introduction
  • The political legacy of embedded liberalism
  • EMU design and welfare recalibration
  • The Great Recession austerity reflex
  • Social Europe coming out from the cold
  • Reconciling EU economic and monetary integration and domestic welfare provision
  • Popular support and limits to European solidarity
  • 5 How Covid-19 bolsters welfare resilience
  • Europe's experiential response to the Covid-19 existential shock
  • Social investment reinforcement
  • E(M)U macroeconomic regime to brace social investment welfare
  • Advancing long-term welfare state resilience in the twenty-first century
  • References
  • Index

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