Politics of Work-Family Policy Reforms in Germany and Italy

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Theories of Welfare State and Work-Family Policy Reform
3. Design and Evolution of Work-Family Policies: A European Comparative Overview
4. Policy Developments in Germany and Italy: From a Shared Focus on The Male-Breadwinner Model to Diverging Paths after The 1990s
5. How Normative Beliefs and Voting Behavior Shape Party Competition on Work-Family Policies
6. Women’s Descriptive Representation: The More, The Better?
7. Work-Family Policy Reform Processes in Germany: Continuous Change Towards Dual-Earner Model Support
8. Italy: No Consensus for Change
9. Conclusion

About the author

Agnes Blome is Research Fellow of the Research Unit Inequality and Social Policy at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany.

Summary

Using a multi-methods approach, this book addresses the puzzle of why Germany was able to implement far-reaching reforms in this policy area after a long impasse and Italy was not. As such, it delivers a broad, systematic account of these reforms and sheds light on why similar reforms were not also adopted in other similar welfare states at the same time.

Product details

• Authors: Agnes Blome, Agnes (Wzb Berlin Social Science Center Blome, Blome Agnes
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138361928
• ISBN: 978-1-138-36192-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State; Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Germany, Italy, Politics & government, Political Economy, Welfare economics, Politics and government