| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 164 pages) : illustrations. |
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Comparative political economy
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Comparative political economy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The European welfare systems, established after the Second World War, have been under sustained attack since the late 1970s from the neoliberal drive towards a small state and the market as the tool for efficient allocation of resources. Indeed, after the 2008 crash, Europe's overprotective welfare provision of high tax, generous pensions and benefits, despite playing a critical welfare role, were blamed for its economic inefficiency and political decline. However, the EU's initial failures in tackling the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has reframed the role of welfare systems and the need for institutional and collective action to guarantee basic security and needs and economic activity became glaringly obvious.In this important contribution, Anton Hemerijck and Robin Huguenot-Noël examine the nature of European welfare provision and the untruths that surround it. They examine the impact of the austerity measures that followed the Great Recession, and consider its future design to equip European societies to face social change, global competition and external shocks. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Figures, tables and equations -- Foreword -- 1 The comeback of the welfare state -- Covid-19 and the false necessity of the equity and efficiency trade-off -- Resilient welfare states in the twenty-first century -- The merits of institutional analysis -- Outline of the book -- 2 Welfare recalibration under E(M)U integration -- Beyond inescapable trade-offs and trilemmas -- Welfare state expansion and E(M)U market integration |
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Welfare state performance at a glance -- Employment performance, age and gender -- Social investment, robust families, training and education -- Reform pathways, sticking points and roadblocks -- Conclusion -- 3 Social investment and secure capabilities -- Introduction -- Welfare paradigms in motion -- The Beveridgean-Keynesian welfare state -- The neoliberal critique of the interventionist welfare state -- The social investment turn -- The welfare state's carrying capacity -- Beyond redistribution and social insurance -- The work-family life course |
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Stocks, flows and buffers in "institutional complementarity" -- Life course multiplier -- Social investment critics -- The normative heart of the social investment paradigm -- Social rights as positive freedoms -- The good polity and distributive justice -- The good life and capacitation -- Secure capabilities and "fertile functionings" -- Stepping stone solidarity -- Logic of (welfare) state intervention -- Time horizon -- Governance -- 4 Towards a eurozone insurance union -- Introduction -- The political legacy of embedded liberalism -- EMU design and welfare recalibration |
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The Great Recession austerity reflex -- Social Europe coming out from the cold -- Reconciling EU economic and monetary integration and domestic welfare provision -- Popular support and limits to European solidarity -- 5 How Covid-19 bolsters welfare resilience -- Europe's experiential response to the Covid-19 existential shock -- Social investment reinforcement -- E(M)U macroeconomic regime to brace social investment welfare -- Advancing long-term welfare state resilience in the twenty-first century -- References -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Welfare state -- European Union countries.
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Welfare state |
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European Union countries |
| Added Author |
Huguenot-Noël, Robin, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hemerijck, A. (Anton). Lient welfare states in the European Union. Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2022 1788214854 (OCoLC)1264457851 |
| ISBN |
1788214889 |
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9781788214889 (electronic bk.) |
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