Reforming the Welfare State

This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014.

Using a variety of welfare state types in Europe, the authors have systematically investigated core questions that have preoccupied the welfare state literature at least since the 1990s. These include the extent of path dependency in mature welfare states, the usage of so-called "invisible" policy instruments for hiding cutbacks, and the role of partisanship - on whether the ideological color of the incumbent affects policy - which have been analysed in depth by examining the new dataset presented in this book.

This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners studying, and working in, welfare and the welfare state, and more broadly to political science, sociology and social policy.

List of contents

1. Introduction  2. Reforming the Welfare State  3. The Welfare State Reform Dataset  4. Welfare Reform in Time  5. Different Countries, Different Policy Instruments?  6. Visibility  7. The Timing of Welfare State Reforms  8. Partisanship  9. Conclusion

About the author

Carsten Jensen is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Georg Wenzelburger is Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Summary

This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014. Using a variety of welfare state types in Europe, the authors have systematically investigated core questions that have preoccupied the welfare state literature at least since the 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: Carsten Jensen, Carsten (Aarhus University Jensen, Carsten Wenzelburger Jensen, Jensen Carsten, Georg Wenzelburger, Georg (TU Kaiserslautern Wenzelburger
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781032176413
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3217641-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Denmark, France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Finland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social issues & processes, Politics and government, Social and ethical issues, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems