Challenges to European Welfare Systems

Thisbook provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all Europeanwelfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-basedstudies and comparative chapters. It focuses on: 1) the economic and financialcrisis, 2) demographic change, and 3) the balance between avoiding risks andopening up opportunities in social policy. The results show that Europeanwelfare systems tend to face the same challenges in different ways and thatalso their responses to those challenges differ considerably. Although the EUalso plays a part in shaping national welfare systems, it becomes evident thatEuropean welfare systems are by no means converging: in terms of social policy,national diversity within Europe is still a major factor that will shape futuredevelopments in European welfare systems.

List of contents

Preface.- Introduction.- Part I: Country Studies.- Part II: Comparative Analyses.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Klaus Schubert, geboren 1951, lehrt Politikwissenschaft an der WWU Münster

ohanna Kuhlmann, B.A., ist seit 2010 studentische Mitarbeiterin an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

Summary

This
book provides the first comprehensive analyses of the challenges all European
welfare systems have been facing since 2007, combining in-depth country-based
studies and comparative chapters. It focuses on: 1) the economic and financial
crisis, 2) demographic change, and 3) the balance between avoiding risks and
opening up opportunities in social policy. The results show that European
welfare systems tend to face the same challenges in different ways and that
also their responses to those challenges differ considerably. Although the EU
also plays a part in shaping national welfare systems, it becomes evident that
European welfare systems are by no means converging: in terms of social policy,
national diversity within Europe is still a major factor that will shape future
developments in European welfare systems.

Product details

• Assisted by: Palom de Villota (Editor), Paloma de Villota (Editor), Johanna Kuhlmann (Editor), Klaus Schubert (Editor), Paloma de Villota (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9783319076799
• ISBN: 978-3-31-907679-9
• No. of pages: 863
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 243 mm x 55 mm
• Weight: 1485 g
• Illustrations: IX, 863 p. 175 illus., 2 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Population, B, Economic Sociology, Social Policy, International Relations, Social & ethical issues, Political Science and International Studies, International Economics, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Political Economy, European Integration, Economic systems & structures, Sociology: work & labour, population economics, International institutions, Population & demography, International Political Economy, Population and Demography, European Economic Community literature