Welfare State As Crisis Manager - Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis

Zusatztext "The great virtue of this book is that it brings together good empirical evidence and analysis of how welfare states respond to and manage crises over time! from a variety of settings." - Peter Taylor-Gooby! Professor of Social Policy! University of Kent! UK Informationen zum Autor Peter Starke is a Political Scientist at the University of Bremen, Germany. Recent publications include Radical Welfare State Retrenchment: A Comparative Analysis. Alexandra Kaasch is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. Previously she held a post-doctoral research position at the University of Bremen, Germany. Franca van Hooren is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Bremen, Germany. She obtained her PhD from the European University Institute, Italy. Klappentext This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states! over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment are shaped by domestic politics and existing welfare state institutions. Zusammenfassung This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states! over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment are shaped by domestic politics and existing welfare state institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Politics of Crisis Response 2. How the Countries Compare 3. The Oil Shocks of 1973 and 1979: Keynesianism and Beyond 4. Recession in the 1990s: The Resistible Rise of Neoliberalism 5. Managing the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and its Aftermath: The Role of Social Policy Conclusion

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Introduction 1. The Politics of Crisis Response 2. How the Countries Compare 3. The Oil Shocks of 1973 and 1979: Keynesianism and Beyond 4. Recession in the 1990s: The Resistible Rise of Neoliberalism 5. Managing the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and its Aftermath: The Role of Social Policy Conclusion

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"The great virtue of this book is that it brings together good empirical evidence and analysis of how welfare states respond to and manage crises over time, from a variety of settings." - Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent, UK

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• Authors: F van Hooren, F Van et al Hooren, F. Van Hooren, Franca van Hooren, Kaasch, A Kaasch, A. Kaasch, Alexandra Kaasch, Kenneth A. Loparo, Starke, P Starke, P. Starke, Peter Starke, Franca Van Hooren, Franca Starke Van Hooren
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9781349330423
• ISBN: 978-1-349-33042-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Transformations of the State; Transformations of the State
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Political sociology; B, Welfare State, Political Science, Social Policy, Welfare, Political science & theory, Social welfare & social services, Public Economics, Social Service, Comparative Politics, Central / national / federal government policies, Public finance, Public finance & taxation, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Care, Politics of the Welfare State, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie