Resilient welfare states in the European Union / Anton Hemerijck and Robin Huguenot-Noel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemerijck, A. (Anton), author.

Series:

Comparative Political Economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small groups.

Social service.

Social work administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Agenda Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

Examines the nature of European welfare provision and the untruths that surround it. They examine the impact of the austerity measures that followed the Great Recession, and consider its future design to equip European societies to face social change, global competition and external shocks.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Figures, tables and equations

Foreword

1 The comeback of the welfare state

Covid-19 and the false necessity of the equity and efficiency trade-off

Resilient welfare states in the twenty-first century

The merits of institutional analysis

Outline of the book

2 Welfare recalibration under E(M)U integration

Beyond inescapable trade-offs and trilemmas

Welfare state expansion and E(M)U market integration

Welfare state performance at a glance

Employment performance, age and gender

Social investment, robust families, training and education

Reform pathways, sticking points and roadblocks

Conclusion

3 Social investment and secure capabilities

Introduction

Welfare paradigms in motion

The Beveridgean-Keynesian welfare state

The neoliberal critique of the interventionist welfare state

The social investment turn

The welfare state's carrying capacity

Beyond redistribution and social insurance

The work-family life course

Stocks, flows and buffers in "institutional complementarity"

Life course multiplier

Social investment critics

The normative heart of the social investment paradigm

Social rights as positive freedoms

The good polity and distributive justice

The good life and capacitation

Secure capabilities and "fertile functionings"

Stepping stone solidarity

Logic of (welfare) state intervention

Time horizon

Governance

4 Towards a eurozone insurance union

The political legacy of embedded liberalism

EMU design and welfare recalibration

The Great Recession austerity reflex

Social Europe coming out from the cold

Reconciling EU economic and monetary integration and domestic welfare provision.

Popular support and limits to European solidarity

5 How Covid-19 bolsters welfare resilience

Europe's experiential response to the Covid-19 existential shock

Social investment reinforcement

E(M)U macroeconomic regime to brace social investment welfare

Advancing long-term welfare state resilience in the twenty-first century

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hemerijck, Anton Resilient Welfare States in the European Union

ISBN:

9781788214889

1788214889

OCLC:

1311312116