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The end of welfare as we know it? continuity and change in western welfare state settings and practices

Over the last 30 years, governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research on welfare assumes that, in fact, the end has alrea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sandermann, Philipp
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leverkusen, Germany Barbara Budrich Publishers 2014©2014, 2014
Subjects:
Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Germany / Fast
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
  • Transnationalizing the CCT Model: a More-than Washington ConsensusMultilateral Agencies, Message Control, and its Limits
  • Conclusion: Post-Political Social Policy?
  • References
  • Richard MÃ?nchmeier: Regulating the Poorâ€?Revisited. Notes on the Shifting Relationship of Social Policy and Social Work in the German Welfare State
  • The Function and Strategy of Welfare Politics in the U.S. (According to Piven and Cloward)
  • The Case of Germany: A History of Task Separation Between Social Politics and Social Pedagogy
  • The Rise of Pedagogy in German Welfare
  • Cover
  • The End of Welfare as We Know It? Continuity and Change in Western Welfare State Settings and Practices
  • Contents
  • I. What Is a Welfare State, and What Is Welfare? Opening Reflections
  • Philipp Sandermann: Change and Continuity in Western Welfare Practices: Some Introductory Comments
  • References
  • John Clarke: The End of the Welfare State? The Challenges of Deconstruction and Reconstruction
  • 1. Accounting for Welfare States
  • 2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Welfare States
  • 3. Reassembling Welfare, State and Nation
  • References
  • 5.1. The Introduction of Paid Child care Leave in Austria and Germany5.2. The Diversification of Child care in France and Belgium
  • 5.3. Germany: From Explicit to Optional Familialism
  • 6. Elder care Policies in Conservative Welfare States: Changes and Explanations
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
  • Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore: On the Global Frontier of Post-Welfare Policymaking: Conditional Cash Transfers as Fast Social Policy
  • Introduction: Globalizing Post-Welfare States
  • Immaculate Invention: Making the CCT Model in Mexico
  • Incorporating Pedagogy Into Social Workâ€?a Process Fraught with ContradictionsFrom the Welfare to the “Activatingâ€? State: Regulating the Poor Revisited
  • Summary
  • References
  • III. Case Studies on Continuity and Change in Selected Western Welfare State Settings
  • Robert P. Fairbanks II: Recovering Post-Welfare Urbanism in Philadelphia and Chicago: Ethnographic Evidence from the Informal Recovery House to the State Penitentiary
  • The Philadelphia Recovery House Movement
  • The Fall Out of Mass Incarceration in Chicago
  • II. Comparative Analyses of Western Welfare State SettingsSigrid Leitner: Varieties of Familialism: Developing Care Policies in Conservative Welfare States
  • 1. Introduction: What is Familialism?
  • 2. Theoretical Foundations of the Concept
  • 2.1. De-familializing Social Policy
  • 2.2. Familializing Social Policy
  • 2.3. Four Types of Familialism
  • 3. Welfare Regimes and Types of Familialism
  • 4. Child care Policies in Conservative Welfare States
  • Aside: Conservative Optional Familialism
  • 5. Explaining Change in Child care Policies

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