Changing Patterns of Social Protection

Changing Patterns of Social Protection analyzes emerging patterns of social welfare and the implications of these trends for the future of social protection to vulnerable groups in France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States

List of contents

Introduction: New Configurations 1. Recent Developments in the German Welfare State: Basic Continuity or a Paradigm Shift? 2. Remaking the Welfare State in New Zealand 3. The French System of Social Protection: Path Dependencies and Societal Coherence 4. New Directions for the British Welfare State 5. Social Welfare under Advanced Capitalism: The U.S. Response 6. Back on Track—To the Future? The Making and Remaking of the Swedish Welfare State in the 1990s 7. Social Security and Welfare in the Netherlands Before and After the Year 2000 8. Half Way Through the Ford: The Italian Welfare State at the Start of the New Century

About the author

Rebecca A. Van Voorhis

Summary

Changing Patterns of Social Protection analyzes emerging patterns of social welfare and the implications of these trends for the future of social protection to vulnerable groups in France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca A. Van Voorhis, Rebecca A van Voorhis
• Assisted by: Rebecca A. Van Voorhis (Editor), Rebecca A van Voorhis (Editor), Rebecca A. van Voorhis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138520233
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52023-3
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: International Social Security Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, International business