Opening Up Opportunities and Risks? Retrenchment, Activation and Targeting as Main Trends of Recent Welfare State Reforms Across Europe
@inproceedings{Borosch2016OpeningUO, title={Opening Up Opportunities and Risks? Retrenchment, Activation and Targeting as Main Trends of Recent Welfare State Reforms Across Europe}, author={Nikola Borosch and Johanna Kuhlmann and Sonja Blum}, year={2016} }
Based on the country chapters in the present volume, this contribution has two objectives: First, it gives a structured overview on the diversity of policy responses that have been adopted since 2007 in European Welfare Systems (EWS). Thereby, we cover the policy areas of labour market, pensions, health, long-term care, family policy and social assistance. Second, on this basis, the chapter identifies three major tendencies of change: To begin with, retrenchment of universal risk prevention…
8 Citations
Recent Developments of European Welfare Systems: Multiple Challenges and Diverse Reactions
- Economics
- 2016
Although all European Welfare Systems are confronted by very similar challenges (among which especially the demographic change and the financial crisis are important), we argue that European Welfare…
The Future of the Slovenian Welfare State and Challenges to Solidarity By
- Political Science, Economics
- 2015
Changing demographic, social, political and economic contexts have strained European welfare states. Social provision in Slovenia had been undergoing gradual development towards a post-socialist…
Retrenched Welfare Regimes Still Lessen Social Class Inequalities in Health
- Political ScienceInternational journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation
- 2017
It is argued that although downward pressures from globalization and neoliberalism have blurred welfare regime typologies, the Nordic model may continue to have an important mediating effect on class-based inequalities in health.
Occupational welfare and segmentation: explaining across (and within) sectoral variation in Germany and Belgium
- EconomicsZeitschrift für Sozialreform
- 2019
Abstract The paper uses a qualitative comparative case study design to examine across (and within) sectoral variation in occupational welfare outcomes (i.e. flexible working hours, occupational…
Politically Limited Pluralism: How European Welfare Systems Deal with the Crisis
- Economics
- 2016
The concept of “politically limited pluralism” (PLP) was developed well before the onset of the fiscal and economic crisis for describing the common denominator of the “European” Welfare Systems…
The facilitators of interagency working in the context of European public service reform
- Political Science
- 2020
ABSTRACT This article provides an overview of key lessons about the governance and leadership of interagency working in multi-level contexts. The article is based on interviews with local and…
Stories of how to give or take – towards a typology of social policy reform narratives
- SociologyPolicy and Society
- 2019
ABSTRACT Narrative stories are crucial to policy change, as they decisively contribute to how policy problems and policies are defined. While this seems to apply for social policy in particular,…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 40 REFERENCES
Still Awaiting the Storm? The Swedish Welfare State After the Latest Crisis
- Economics
- 2016
This paper examines the challenges to the Swedish welfare state after the credit crunch of 2008 focusing on several major challenges: the government’s reaction to the fiscal and economic crisis and…
The broad tracks of path dependent benefit reforms. A longitudinal study of social benefit reforms in three European countries, 1980–2006
- Political Science, Economics
- 2008
Seeking to contribute to the vivid discussion on welfare state change, this analysis takes a comparative look at changes in the rights and conditions of social security (unemployment, sickness and…
Italian Welfare Reforms: Missed Opportunities for a Paradigmatic Change?
- Economics, Political Science
- 2016
The Italian welfare state has experienced a huge reform trend in the last two decades. This has been consistent with a lengthy (and still limited) transition towards a more financially viable system…
An Immature Welfare State Under Transformation: The Turkish Welfare Regime and the Crises
- Economics, Political Science
- 2016
This chapter focuses on the main reforms in the social security and social assistance systems of Turkey in the post-2002 period. This has been a period in which the immature welfare regime of the…
Family Policies in ‘Hybrid’ Welfare States after the Crisis: Pathways between Policy Expansion and Retrenchment†
- Political Science
- 2014
The economic crisis has significantly challenged national welfare states and has often led to retrenchment. The question arises how countries have reacted to the crisis in the area of family policy –…
Universalism Versus Targeting: The Vulnerability of Social Insurance and Means-Tested Minimum Income Protection in 18 Countries, 1990-2002
- Economics
- 2007
The stagnation and retrenchment of social policies in recent decades raise considerable interest and concern in writings on the welfare state. This study examines differences in the development of…
Reforming the Austrian Welfare System: Facing Demographic and Economic Challenges in a Federal Welfare State
- Economics
- 2016
Across Europe, the economic and fiscal crisis has deeply shaken the economy and created enormous challenges lasting up until today. Austria is no exception, but that did not lead to fundamental…
The Cypriot Welfare State at a Time of Crisis
- Economics
- 2016
The present contribution presents data backing up the thesis that the welfare state in Cyprus has deteriorated significantly since 2008, placing the blame on the policies implemented by the 2008–2013…
Denmark: Still a Nordic Welfare State After the Changes of Recent Years?
- Economics
- 2016
This article presents as a case analysis, mainly by using official Danish documents and national and Eurostat data, a picture of and reasons for the development in the Danish welfare state in recent…
Slovenia: Continuous Gradual Change of the Welfare State?
- Political Science
- 2016
In Slovenia development of the welfare system started from a state socialist welfare system and was marked with gradualism. A dual model of the welfare system has formed, with the compulsory social…