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This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade, with a final chapter that focuses on Covid-19 welfare management. It shows that the future of work and welfare can be shaped to provide inclusive social security and to fight poverty and inequality.
List of contents
- 1: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: The welfare state's resolve
- 2: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: Welfare performance over the long 2010s
- 3: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: Welfare performance over the long 2010s
- 4: Manos Matsaganis and Andrea Parma: Buffering the Great Recession and the eurozone crisis
- 5: Ilze Plavgo and Anton Hemerijck: Under the spell of austerity: welfare reform across Europe between 2008 and 2014
- 6: Ilze Plavgo and Anton Hemerijck: Fostering resilience: Welfare policy change across Europe between 2015 and 2019
- 7: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: The legacy of the eurozone crisis
- 8: Francesco Corti and Anton Hemerijck: Social Europe in a bind, no more?
- 9: Anton Hemerijck and Manos Matsaganis: Towards a social compass for inclusive and sustainable growth
About the author
Anton Hemerijck is Professor of Political Science and Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). He has previously held positions at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was Director of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the principal think tank in the Netherlands. More recently, he was a member of the European Commission High-Level Group on the Future of Social Protection and of the Welfare State in the EU (2021 - 2023). He is the author of Changing Welfare States (OUP, 2013) and editor of The Uses of Social Investment (OUP, 2017).
Manos Matsaganis is Professor of Public Finance at Polytechnic University of Milan. Prior to this, he worked at the Athens University of Economics and Business, in the Office of the Greek Prime Minister, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and University of California Berkeley, and is currently Senior Researcher at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan.
Summary
This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade, with a final chapter that focuses on Covid-19 welfare management. It shows that the future of work and welfare can be shaped to provide inclusive social security and to fight poverty and inequality.
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The book provides an outstanding account of how European welfare states were able to withstand an unprecedented polycrisis and engage in an epochal recalibration towards capacitating social investments. Through a perfect mix of empirical analysis and interpretative reasoning, the authors sort out the factors which have underpinned the resilience of welfare institutions, highlighting the buffering role which the EU has gradually come to play in the social policy domain. Written in admirably clear and elegant prose, the book is an essential reading about a topic which remains at the centre of scientific, policy, and political debates all over Europe - and beyond.
