De Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Welfare States /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Greve, Bent.
Imprint:Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter contemporary social sciences handbooks ; 1
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12778911
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:3110721767
9783110721768
3110721244
9783110721249
Notes:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2022).
Other form:Print version: 9783110721829
Print version: 3110721244 9783110721249
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Part I Research methods
  • 1 Contemporary welfare states and their challenges
  • 2 Four families of theories to understand welfare state change
  • 3 Evidence-Based Policy-Making
  • Part II Welfare regimes
  • 4 Nordic welfare states: up to challenge?
  • 5 Continental European welfare states
  • 6 Liberal welfare states
  • 7 The Southern European welfare model
  • 8 Eastern European welfare states
  • 9 In search of a suitable path for welfare system development in China
  • 10 East Asia: welfare determinants and issues in the post-developmentalism era
  • Part III Issues and challenges
  • 11 Health policy in a comparative perspective
  • 12 COVID-19 and the welfare state: impacts, mechanisms, and responses
  • 13 Through the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives for the welfare state
  • 14 Long-Term Care in ageing societies
  • 15 Pension
  • 16 The legitimacy of the welfare state in the age of migration
  • 17 Education and the welfare state: worlds of early school leaving in Europe
  • 18 Economic inequality
  • a growing issue?
  • 19 Poverty in the five welfare regimes of Europe
  • 20 Employment and unemployment
  • 21 Sustainability
  • 22 Populism
  • 23 Behavioural public policy
  • 24 North-South divide and global social policy
  • 25 Incentives-disincentives
  • the benefit side of the welfare states
  • Part IV Future research needs
  • 26 The future of welfare states?
  • Contributors to this volume