What future for social security? : debates and reforms in national and cross-national perspective
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What future for social security? : debates and reforms in national and cross-national perspective
（Studies in employment and social policy, 11）
Kluwer Law International, c2001
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Based on a conference "Future of social security" held at Stirling University in June 2000
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-274)
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内容説明
It is widely assumed today that the "welfare state" is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social-security benefits is being subjected in most developed countries. In this book, 15 authorities from nine different countries - the UK, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the US - investigate to what extent this assumption is warranted. The papers were originally presented at a Conference on "The Future of Social Security" held at the University of Stirling in June 2000. Taking into account developments and initiatives at every administrative level from sub-national employment agencies to the OECD and the World Bank, they draw on both data and theories in a broad spectrum of related disciplines, including political science, economics, sociology and law. Detailed materials allow the reader to formulate well-defined responses to such questions as: is there indeed waning public support for social security?; is the "demographic time bomb" of an ageing population as serious a problem as we are often led to believe?; how seriously do supranational reform proposals tend to underestimate cross-national differences?
to what degree is "activation policy" merely rhetorical?; to what extent do employment-office staff reformulate and redefine policies "on the ground" to accommodate specific case-by-case realities? Specific criteria for entitlement (such as disability) and such central issues as "gendered" assumptions, access to benefit programmes and the involvement of trade unions are examined in a variety of contexts. As an authoritative assessment of the current state of social-security reform - its critical issues, its direction, and its potential impacts - this book should prove to be of value to all professionals and officials concerned with social programmes at any government level.
目次
- List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on the Contributors. 1. Social Security in the New Millennium
- J. Clasen. Part I. Debates. 2. Rising Tides and Rusty Boats: Economic Position of the Poor in 1985-1995
- O. Kangas. 3. Popular Support for Social Security. A Sociological Perspective
- W. van Oorschot. 4. Non-Discriminating Social Policy? Policy Scenarios for Meeting Needs without Categorisation
- H. Bolderson, D. Mabbett. 5. Equality, Employment, and State Social Policies: A Gendered Perspective
- A. Shola Orloff. 6. Europeanisation and Decentralisation of Welfare 'Safety Nets'
- L. Moreno. Part II. Reforms. A. Reforms in Theoretical Perspective. 7. Beyond Retrenchment: Four Problems in Current Welfare State Research and One Suggestion How to Overcome Them
- B. Palier. 8. Change without Challenge? Welfare States, Social Construction of Challenge and Dynamics of Path Dependency
- J. Goul Andersen. B. Reforming Pension Systems. 9. Public Expenditure and Population Ageing: Why Families of Nations are Different
- F.G. Castles. 10. Ageing and Public Pension Reforms in Western Europe and North America: Patterns and Politics
- K. Hinrichs. 11. The Redistributional Impact of a World Bank 'Pension Regime'
- E. Overbye. C. Activation Reforms. 12. Activating Welfare States. How Social Policies Can Promote Employment
- J. Kvist. 13. Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: European and American Approaches from a British Perspective
- M. Evans. 14. Activating the Unemployed: The Street-Level Implementation of UK Policy
- S. Wright. Bibliography.
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