Social investment as a policy paradigm
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1350-1763; 1466-4429
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Journal of European public policy, 2018, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 810-827
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HEMERIJCK, Anton, Social investment as a policy paradigm, Journal of European public policy, 2018, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 810-827 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/53124
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This contribution delineates the sui generis paradigmatic portent of the social investment perspective. After theoretically defining the notion of a policy paradigm in welfare state analysis, the substantive core of the social investment paradigm is presented in two consecutive steps. First, the substantive core of the social investment policy paradigm is exemplified in terms of three core policy functions, relating to: raising and maintaining human capital ‘stock’ throughout the life course; easing the ‘flow’ of contemporary labour market transitions; and upkeeping strong minimum-income universal safety nets as social protection and economic stabilization ‘buffers’. To drive home the conjecture of social investment as a policy paradigm in its own right, this will, in the final section, be compared with two preceding hegemonic ideal-typical policy paradigms: the demand-oriented Keynesian-Beveridgean welfare compromise of the post-war era; and its anti-thesis, the neoliberal supply-side critique of the welfare state of the 1980s, along a number of institutionally relevant dimensions.
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Published online: 22 Mar 2018