Towards a social investment welfare state? : ideas, policies and challenges / edited by Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier and Joakim Palme.

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TextPublication details: Bristol : Policy Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781847429261
1847429262
128335067X
9781283350679
1447305612
9781447305613
9786613350671
6613350672

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No title; Print version:: Towards a social investment welfare state?DDC classification:

361.61094 23

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HV240.5.A6

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MS 6500
71.80

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Contents:

1. Beyond the welfare state as we knew it? / Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier, Joakim Palme -- Part I. Towards a New Social Policy Paradigm: 2. Two or three waves of welfare state transformation? / Anton Hemerijck; 3. Redesigning citizenship regimes after neoliberalism: moving towards social investment / Jane Jenson -- Part II. Mapping the Development of Social Investment Policies: 4. Towards social investment? Patterns of public policy in the OECD world / Rita Nikolai; 5. Social investment or recommodification? Assessing the employment policies of the EU member states / Caroline de la Porte and Kerstin Jacobsson -- Part III. Assessing the Social Investment Policies: 6. Promoting social investment through work-family policies: which nations do it and why? / Kimberly J. Morgan; 7. Active labour market policy and social investment: a changing relationship / Giuliano Bonoli; 8. Do social investment policies produce more and better jobs? / Moira Nelson and John D. Stephens; 9. Social investment in the globalising learning economy: a European perspective / Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Edward Lorenz -- Part IV. Meeting the Challenges Ahead?: 10. Social investment in the ageing populations of Europe / Thomas Lindh; 11. Aftershock: the post-crisis social investment welfare state in Europe / Patrick Diamond and Roger Liddle; 12. Climate policy and the social investment approach: towards a European model for sustainable development / Lena Sommestad; 13. From the Lisbon Strategy to EUROPE 2020 / Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Edward Lorenz; 14. Social investment: a paradigm in search of a new economic model and political mobilization / Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier and Joakim Palme.

Summary: This edited volume questions whether the recently promoted European 'social investment' strategy is able to regenerate the welfare state, promote social inclusion, create more and better jobs, and help address the challenges posed by the economic crisis, globalisation, ageing and climate change.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This edited volume questions whether the recently promoted European 'social investment' strategy is able to regenerate the welfare state, promote social inclusion, create more and better jobs, and help address the challenges posed by the economic crisis, globalisation, ageing and climate change.