Who's afraid of the welfare state now?

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dc.contributor.authorHEMERIJCK, Anton
dc.contributor.authorMATSAGANIS, Manos
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-18T08:03:47Z
dc.date.available2024-06-18T08:03:47Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 11 March 2024en
dc.description.abstractThis 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. The 2008 crash marked a critical stress test for European welfare states with dramatic repercussions, including a massive surge in unemployment, a widening in wage and income disparities, and rising poverty. Hikes in fiscal deficits and public debt, required to pre-empt an economic meltdown, forced policymakers to make painful cuts in welfare services to shore up public finances, thereby jeopardizing welfare support for vulnerable groups. The overall scope of welfare-policy responses is heterogeneous, disparate, and uneven. In some cases, the response to the Great Recession was accompanied by deep social conflicts, while in others unpopular crisis-management measures received broad consent from opposition parties, trade unions, and employer organizations. Alongside serious retrenchments, there have been assertive attempts to rebuild social programmes and institutions, to accommodate policy repertoires-not merely domestically but also at the EU level-to the new realities of the knowledge economy and an ageing society. Overall, the long 2010s showed that the future of work and welfare is in our hands: it is perfectly possible to shape this future in such a way as to provide inclusive social security, achieve high employment, advance and maintain human capabilities across the life-course, and fight poverty and inequality.en
dc.description.tableofcontents-- 1: The welfare state's resolve -- 2: Welfare performance over the long 2010s -- 3: Welfare performance over the long 2010s -- 4: Buffering the Great Recession and the eurozone crisis -- 5: Under the spell of austerity: welfare reform across Europe between 2008 and 2014 -- 6: Fostering resilience: Welfare policy change across Europe between 2015 and 2019 -- 7: The legacy of the eurozone crisis -- 8: Social Europe in a bind, no more? -- 9: Towards a social compass for inclusive and sustainable growthen
dc.identifier.citationNew York : Oxford University Press, 2024en
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/oso/9780198875468.001.0001
dc.identifier.isbn9780198896081
dc.identifier.isbn9780198875468
dc.identifier.isbn9780191987373
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76975
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.titleWho's afraid of the welfare state now?en
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