The new politics of unemployment : radical policy initiatives in Western Europe / edited by Hugh Compston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Compston, Hugh, 1955-

Series:

European political science series.

European political science series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Full employment policies--Europe--Case studies.

Full employment policies.

Unemployment--Europe--Case studies.

Unemployment.

Physical Description:

xii, 222 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Radical policy initiatives in Western Europe

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The problem of mass unemployment in western Europe has persisted since the early 1980s. Clearly the policies implemented by national governments and the EU have not been successful in adequately tackling this important social, economic and political issue. The New Politics of Unemployment provides a thorough comparative analysis of the present situation. It looks at how the orthodox unemployment policies of contemporary governments have failed and what new policies might be introduced. A number of radical unemployment policies, from Germany, France, Italy, Britain, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and the EU, are outlined. These are investigated with a view to identifying the conditions under which they might become standard components of national and EU strategies to bring down unemployment. This book is the first comparative study of the politics of policy innovation in the area of unemployment. It will be an important addition to the literature of European public policy and important reading for students of comparative European politics and economics.

Contents:

chapter Introduction

chapter 1 The European Union / Hugh Compston

chapter 2 Germany / Ulrich Widmaier

chapter 3 France / Susan Milner

chapter 4 Italy / Elisabetta Gualmini

chapter 5 Britain / Jonathan Tonge

chapter 6 Spain / Martin Rhodes

chapter 7 Denmark / J�rn Loftager

chapter 8 Norway / Thore K.Karlsen

chapter 9 Switzerland / Kermit Blank

chapter 10 Comparisons and conclusions / Hugh Compston.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-74770-5

1-134-74771-3

1-280-31815-5

0-203-44183-4

9780203441831

OCLC:

437078866