TY  - GEN
AU  - Ellison,Nick
TI  - The Transformation of Welfare States?
SN  - 9780203099490
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Sociology
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Labour Market Policies
KW  - regime
KW  - Welfare Reform
KW  - continental
KW  - Welfare Regimes
KW  - regimes
KW  - PAYG System
KW  - labour
KW  - Vice Versa
KW  - market
KW  - Select OECD Country
KW  - policies
KW  - Active Labour Market Policies
KW  - flexibility
KW  - Welfare Regime Change
KW  - occupational
KW  - Occupational Schemes
KW  - schemes
KW  - Pensions Systems
KW  - social
KW  - Pension Provision
KW  - Occupational Pensions
KW  - GEP
KW  - Hard Currency Policy
KW  - EES
KW  - Pensions Arrangements
KW  - Tfr
KW  - Long Term Unemployed
KW  - Neoliberal Drift
KW  - FDI Flow
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and the challenges they face. This book assesses current debates about the role of ‘globalization’ in welfare state change, paying particular attention to contemporary views about the capacity of embedded institutional structures to limit the effects of global economic pressures. Ellison assesses the changing nature of social policies in nine OECD countries – selected to include ‘liberal, ‘social democratic’ and ‘continental’ welfare regimes. Taking labour market and pension policies as the main areas of investigation, this volume provides ‘snapshots’ of welfare reform in each case, charting the ways in which different regimes ‘manage’ the range of challenges with which they are confronted. Ultimately, the book suggests that all contemporary welfare regimes are experiencing a level of ‘neoliberal drift’. As yet, this trend towards liberalization remains constrained in those countries with more ‘coordinated’ economies and institutionalized forms of social partnership – but the question is for how long? This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of International Politics, Sociology and Social Policy
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102630/1/9781134765706.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160487
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