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Zusatztext At this critical moment in history we are looking for new concepts to help rewrite the post-war social settlement. Is Social Investment the answer? Find out here. Hemerijck and company meet their critiques in this remarkably ambitious project. The 'go to' place to find out everything you ever wanted to know about Social Investment in one book. An impressive achievement and a valuable contribution that will inform debates for decades. Informationen zum Autor Anton Hemerijck is Professor of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence, and Centennial Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung This volume provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Introduction 1: Anton Hemerijck: Social Investment and its Critics Part 2: Limits to Social Investment 2: Brian Nolan: Social Investment: the Thin Line Between Evidence Based Research and Political Advocacy 3: Jean-Claude Barbier: 'Social Investment': With or Against Social Protection? 4: Chiara Saraceno: Family Relationships and Gender Equality in the Social Investment Discourse: A Too Reduced View? 5: Giuliano Bonoli, Bea Cantillon, and Wim Van Lancker: Social Investment and the Matthew Effect: Limits to a Strategy 6: Daniel Mertens: The 'New Welfare State' Under Fiscal Strain: Austerity Gridlocks and the Privatization of Risk Part 3: Social Investment Endowment and Extensions 7: Lane Kenworthy: Enabling Social Policy 8: Anne Wren: Social Investment and the Service Economy Trilemma 9: Günther Schmid: Towards Employment Insurance? 10: Margarita León: Social Investment and Childcare Expansion: A Perfect Match? 11: Verena Dräbing and Moira Nelson: Addressing Human Capital Risks and the Role of Institutional Complementarities 12: Charles Sabel, Jonathan Zeitlin, and Sigrid Quack: Capacitating Services and the Bottom-Up Approach to Social Investment 13: Nathalie Morel and Joakim Palme: A Normative Foundation for the Social Investment Approach? Part 4: Social Investment Assessment: Conceptualization and Methods 14: Brian Burgoon: Practical Pluralism in the Empirical Study of Social Investment: Examples from Active Labor Market Policy 15: Iain Begg: Social Investment and its Discount Rate 16: Johan De Deken: Conceptualising and Measuring Social Investment 17: Gerlinde Verbist: Measuring Social Investment Returns: Do Publicly Provided Services Enhance Social Inclusion? Part 5: Comparative Social Investment Experience 18: Jane Jenson: Developing and Spreading a Social Investment Perspective: The World Bank and the OECD Compared 19: Kees van Kersbergen and Jonas Kraft: De-Universalization and Selective Social Investment in Scandinavia? 20: Martin Seeleib-Kaiser: The Truncated German Social Investment Turn 21: Menno Soentken, Franca van Hooren and Deborah Rice: The Impact of Social Investment Reforms on Income and Activation in the Netherlands 22: Rory O'Donnell and Damian Thomas: Ireland: the Evolving Tensions Between Austerity, Welfare Expansion and Targeted Social Investment 23: Alain Noël: Social Investment in a Federal Welfare State: The Quebec Experience 24: Timo Fleckenstein and Soohyun Christine Lee: A Social Investment Turn in East Asia? South Korea in Comparative Perspective 25: Johan Sandberg and Moira Nelson: Social Investment in Latin America 26: Yuri Kazepov and Costanzo Ranci: Why No Social Investment in Italy: Timing, Austerity, and Macro-level Matthew Effects Part 6: EU Social Investment Advocacy 27: Evelyn Astor, Lieve Fransen, Marc Vothknecht: Social Investment for a Cohesive and Competitive European Union...
