Austerity, retrenchment and the welfare state : truth or fiction?
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Austerity, retrenchment and the welfare state : truth or fiction?
Edward Elgar, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Are we living in an age of permanent austerity? In this insightful book, Bent Greve provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of welfare states since 2000, exploring the ways in which austerity can be measured and quantified and how far retrenchment has impinged on European welfare states.
Featuring clear and succinct discussions defining austerity and retrenchment, Greve offers strong methodological approaches to the measurement of austerity. This timely book provides detailed comparative European analysis, unpacking changes in health care, pension systems and employment policies to better understand the nature, impact and extent of austerity in welfare services.
Detailed and nuanced, this book is critical for students of social policy, sociology and political science exploring contemporary European austerity programs. Researchers will also benefit, as the author casts new light on the development and trajectories of the modern welfare state.
Table of Contents
Contents: Foreword 1. Austerity and the Welfare State: An Introduction 2. Key concepts 3. Can we measure change? 4. Tax or welfare? 5. Key developments in welfare state spending 6. Has there been austerity within the pension system? 7. Employment policy 8. Health care 9. Long-term care 10. Poverty and inequality 11. How far have welfare states changed? 12. Austerity in welfare states or not? Index
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