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Politics of segmentation : party competition and social protection in Europe / Georg Picot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Picot, Georg, 1978-
- Series:
- Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; 15.
- Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties--Europe.
- Political parties.
- Social policy.
- Political planning.
- Europe.
- Political planning--Europe.
- Europe--Social policy--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Summary:
- Politics of Segmentation analyses the impact of party competition on reforms of unemployment benefits in Europe, utilising a comparative approach. It brings together two important issues in welfare state research that have raised considerable interest among social policy scholars. Firstly, tit examines he complex influence of party competition on social policy-making that goes beyond the traditional hypotheses of partisanship; secondly, is examines the ways in which social policy creates different levels of protection for different social groups. Providing an overview of unemployment protection policy across 28 countries, as well as in depth case studies of party competition, Politics of Segmentation will be of interest to scholars of political economy, social policy and welfare.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Party competition and social protection
- Comparing Italy and Germany
- Segmentation of unemployment benefits in advanced welfare states today
- Italy and Germany: policy divergence after World War II
- Italy and Germany: changing trends during welfare state restructuring
- Explaining labour market reforms in Italy and Germany
- Italy and Germany: political driving forces behind different post-war paths
- Germany: two political logics of segmenting reforms
- Italy: party system change facilitating de-segmentation
- Party competition and benefit segmentation across advanced welfare states
- Conclusions and future research.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415665612
- 0415665612
- 9780203132005
- 0203132009
- OCLC:
- 676728464
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