Handbook on austerity, populism and the welfare state / edited by Bent Greve.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare

Elgar handbooks in social policy and welfare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Populism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Populism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 432 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

This innovative Handbook presents the core concepts associated with austerity, retrenchment and populism and explores how they can be used to analyse developments in different welfare states and in specific social policies. Leading experts highlight how these concepts have influenced and changed welfare states around the globe and impacted specific areas including pensions, long-term care, the labour market, taxation, social activism and gender equality. Comprehensive in approach, the authors offer cutting edge research demonstrating the importance of societal developments to welfare states and the effects of ideas, ideologies and variations in policies and decisions in different countries. They also investigate key country and regime-specific approaches to welfare state development, analysing and interpreting changes in the last 10-15 years. The main drivers for these changes, ranging from demography, to the financial crisis, to the use of new technology and the possible impact of populism, are examined. Far reaching and authoritative, this timely Handbook offers a systematic theoretic overview which will be invaluable for scholars of welfare states, social policy, sociology and political science. Social policy makers will also benefit from the novel case studies explored in depth, and suggestions for potential policy changes.

Contents:

Contents: Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction to handbook on austerity, populism and the welfare state / Bent Greve

Part II: Conceptual and methodological issues: 2. What is austerity? / Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving

3. The politics of retrenchment / Peter Starke

4. Populism and the welfare state / Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Lisa Zanotti

5. Measuring retrenchment in welfare states: Overcoming the challenges to the definition, operationalization and measurement of welfare policy change / Elisa Helena Xiol Y Ferreira and Michael Howlett

6. The dependent variable problem revisited: Methods, concepts, and scope in the welfare retrenchment literature / Mehmet Fuat Kına and Erdem Yörük

7. Understanding the 'welfare state' in the context of austerity and populism / Sonja Blum and Johanna Kuhlmann

8. Austerity, populism, and the politics of blame: An ideational perspective / Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan

9. The social legitimacy of European welfare states after "the age of austerity" / Femke Roosma

10. Austerity and poverty / Paul Spicker

Part III: Country and welfare regimes - analysis of austerity/populism 11. Nordic welfare state changes especially in the light of migration and the financial crisis / Bent Greve and Jon Kvist

12. Fiscal austerity, welfare retrenchment and political populism in continental European welfare states / Jan-Ocko Heuer

13. The United Kingdom before and after brexit / Benjamin Leruth and Peter Taylor-Gooby

14. South Europe: Reclaiming welfare post-crisis? / Maria Petmesidou and Ana Marta Guillén

15. Austerity, populism and welfare retrenchment in central and south eastern Europe / Noemi Lendvai-Bainton and Paul Stubbs

16. Support to families with children in the baltic states: Pathways of expansion and retrenchment from 2004 to 2019 / Jolanta Aidukaite

Part IV: Are specific welfare programs more prone to austerity - and if so, why?

17. Incremental or paradigm shifting? Evidence about the retrenchment of public pension schemes in the industrialised world from expenditure and replacement rate data, 1980-2015 / Paul Bridgen

18. Unemployment benefits in the 21st century: New dimensions of retrenchment and the roles of austerity and populism / Axel Cronert

19. Austerity and its corresponding effects on public safety and crime / Adegbola Ojo

20. Family policy in Europe in the era of austerity and populism / Mikael Nygård and Mikko Kuisma

21. Long-term care policies meet austerity / Barbara Da Roit

22. Changes in tax systems / Nelly Popova

23. Labour markets in post-crisis Europe: Liberalisation, deregulation, precarisation / Dragos Adăscălitei and Jason Heyes

24. The impact of austerity on social activism / Shana Cohen

25. Gender, austerity and the welfare state / Sidita Kushi and Ian P. McManus

Part V: Change to the role of welfare states?

26. Reflection upon the development of, and the future for, welfare states / Bent Greve

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78990-674-1

OCLC:

1253375998