From the manpower revolution to the activation paradigm : explaining institutional continuity and change in an integrating Europe
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From the manpower revolution to the activation paradigm : explaining institutional continuity and change in an integrating Europe
(Changing welfare states)
Amsterdam University Press, c2011
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-385) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe, while paying close attention to the OECD and the European Union as proliferators of new ideas. Three phases are identified: (a) a manpower revolution phase during the 1960s and 1970s, when most European governments emulated Swedish manpower policies and introduced/modernized their public employment services; (b) a phase of international disagreement about the root causes of, and remedies for, unemployment, triggering a diversity of policy responses during the late 1970s and 1980s; and (c) the emergence of an activation paradigm since the late 1990s, causing a process of institutional hybridization. The book's main contention is that the evolution of labor market policy is not only determined by historical trajectories or coalitional struggles, but also by policy makers' changing normative and cognitive beliefs. The cases studied include Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents - 6[-]List of Boxes, Figures and Tables - 10[-]Abbreviations - 14[-]Acknowledgements - 20[-]I Introduction - 22[-]II Theoretical Approach - 36[-]Part I Origin and Crisis of European Labour Market Policy Regimes - 72[-] III Origin of European Labour Market Policy Regimesand the Manpower Revolution - 74[-] IV Labour Market Policy Regimes in Crisis: Divergence into Three Distinct Clusters - 106[-]Part II The Emergence of the Activation Paradigm - 150[-] V The OECD's Repeated Reassessments and the EU as aProliferator of New Ideas - 152[-] VI The Emergence of the Activation Paradigm: Analysing Institutional Hybridisation - 194[-] VII Explaining Transformative Change in Two Crucial Cases - 254[-] VIII Conclusion - 296[-]List of Interviews and Personal Conversations - 316[-]Notes - 322[-]List of Interviews and Personal Conversations - 340[-]Bibliography - 342[-]Index - 388
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