Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It

Informationen zum Autor Peter Taylor-Gooby is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent, UK. He chairs the British Academy New Paradigms in Public Policy Programme and the HEFCE Social Work and Social Policy Panel. His recent publications include New Paradigms in Public Policy , Reframing Social Citizenship , Risk in Social Science (with Jens Zinn), Ideas and the Welfare State , and New Risks, New Welfare . Klappentext This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build social inclusiveness is possible and shows how it can be achieved. Zusammenfassung This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts! root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build social inclusiveness is possible and shows how it can be achieved. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Double Crisis of the Welfare State 2. Why Add Restructuring to Cut-Backs? Explaining the New Policy Direction 3. Addressing the Double Crisis: The Welfare State Trilemma 4. Responding to the Trilemma: Affordable Policies to Make Popular Mass Services More Inclusive 5. Making Generous and Inclusive Policies Politically Feasible

List of contents

1. The Double Crisis of the Welfare State 2. Why Add Restructuring to Cut-Backs? Explaining the New Policy Direction 3. Addressing the Double Crisis: The Welfare State Trilemma 4. Responding to the Trilemma: Affordable Policies to Make Popular Mass Services More Inclusive 5. Making Generous and Inclusive Policies Politically Feasible

Product details

• Authors: P Taylor-Gooby, P. Taylor-Gooby, Peter Taylor-Gooby
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2013
• EAN: 9781137328106
• ISBN: 978-1-137-32810-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; C, Sociology, Welfare State, Social Policy, Welfare, Social welfare & social services, Public Economics, Sociology, general, Social Service, Education and state, Central / national / federal government policies, Education Policy, Public finance, Public finance & taxation, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Care, Politics of the Welfare State, aging;Policy;service;Welfare;Welfare State