Targeting Social Benefits - International Perspectives and Trends

Over the last decade changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider how they approach social protection

List of contents

Introduction; 1: The New Zealand Model: Targeting in an Income-Tested System; 2: Targeting Strategies in the Netherlands: Demand Management and Cost Constraint; 3: Targeting Social Provisions in Britain: Who Benefits from Allocation Formulae?; 4: Retrenchment and Progressive Targeting: The Israeli Experience; 5: Targeting Social Welfare in the United States: Personal Responsibility, Private Behavior, and Public Benefits; 6: Targeting Welfare in a “Soft” State: Italy’s Winding Road to Selectivity; 7: From a Generous to a Stingy Welfare State? Sweden’s Approach to Targeting; 8: Renegotiating Social Allocations: Choices and Issues

About the author

Neil Gilbert

Summary

Over the last decade changing family life and increasing fiscal constraints on welfare expenditures have forced industrialized nations to reconsider how they approach social protection

Product details

• Authors: Neil Gilbert, Gilbert Neil
• Assisted by: Neil Gilbert (Editor), Gilbert Neil (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138533844
• ISBN: 978-1-138-53384-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: International Social Security Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Politics & government, Social welfare & social services, Politics and government, Social welfare, social policy and social services