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The welfare workforce : why mental health care varies across affluent democracies
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025, Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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PERERA, Isabel, The welfare workforce : why mental health care varies across affluent democracies, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025, Cambridge studies in comparative politics - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77726
Abstract
The Welfare Workforce is a thought-provoking exploration of mental health care in the United States and beyond. Although all the affluent democracies pursued deinstitutionalization, some failed to provide adequate services, while others overcame challenges of stigma and limited resources and successfully expanded care. Isabel M. Perera examines the role of the “welfare workforce” in providing social services to those who cannot demand them. Drawing on extensive research in four countries – the United States, France, Norway, and Sweden – Perera sheds light on postindustrial politics and the critical part played by those who work for the welfare state. A must-read for anyone interested in mental health care, social services, and the politics of welfare, The Welfare Workforce challenges conventional wisdom and offers new insights into the complex factors that contribute to the success or failure of mental health care systems.
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-- Preface
-- 1 The Welfare Workforce: Managers and Workers Make Strange Bedfellows
-- 2 Nowhere to Go? The Supply of Mental Health Services across Countries
-- 3 Before Deinstitutionalization: The United States and France Compared
-- 4 Deinstitutionalization in the United States
-- 5 Deinstitutionalization in France
-- 6 Deinstitutionalization Elsewhere: A Scandinavian Check
-- 7 Beyond Deinstitutionalization: Welfare Workers and Welfare Capitalism
-- Postscript: The Evolving Definition of the “Welfare Workforce”
-- Appendix
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Published online: 02 January 2025