Social policy in challenging times : economic crisis and welfare systems /

Bringing together a range of expert contributions, this book is the first to address the relationship between the economic crisis and social policy within an international context. The key lesson to emerge is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Farnsworth, Kevin (Editor ), Irving, Zoë (Zoë M.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : The Policy Press, 2011.
Temas:
Social policy.
Economic policy.
Public Policy
Politique sociale.
Politique économique.
public policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Policy.
Economic policy
Social policy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Varieties of crisis / Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving
  • The economic crisis and paradigm change / Michael Hill
  • From financial crisis to fiscal crisis / Ian Gough Credit crunch, inequality and social policy / Adrian Sinfield
  • Global social policy responses to the economic crisis / Bob Deacon
  • Poverty, the crisis and social policy responses in developing countries / Armando Barrientos
  • South Korea after the 1997 economic crisis: a 'paradigm shift'? / Eunna Lee-Gong
  • China's response to crisis: what role for social policy? / Sarah Cook and Wing Lam
  • Tiptoeing through crisis? Re-evaluating the German social model in light of the global recession / John Hudson and Stefan Kühner
  • Ireland and the impact of the economic crisis: upholding the dominant policy paradigm
  • Mairéad Considine and Fiona Dukelow
  • Waving not drowning: Iceland, kreppan and alternative social policy futures / Zoë Irving
  • Experiences from two financial crises in the Nordic welfare states: 1990-93 and 2008-10 compared / Pekka Kosonen
  • Social policy and the recent economic crisis and in Canada and the United States / Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan
  • From economic crisis to a new age of austerity: the UK / Kevin Farnsworth
  • Responding to the challenges: some concluding remarks on welfare futures in changed circumstances / Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving.

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