Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems 2nd Edition by Sonja Blum, Johanna Kuhlmann, Klaus Schubert ISBN 036725915X 978-0367259150

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ISBN 10: 036725915X 

ISBN 13: 978-0367259150

Author: Sonja Blum, Johanna Kuhlmann, Klaus Schubert

Published ten years after the first edition, this new Handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all 28 EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. Additional chapters provide detailed information on EU social policy, as well as comparative analyses of European welfare systems and their reform pathways. For this second edition, all chapters have been updated and substantially revised, and Croatia additionally included.

The second edition of this Handbook is most timely, given the often-fundamental welfare state transformations against the background of the financial and economic crises, transforming social policy ideas, as well as political shifts in a number of European countries. The book sets out to analyse these new developments when it comes to social policy. In the first part, all country chapters provide systematic and comparable information on the foundations of the different national welfare systems and their characteristics. In the second part, using a joint conceptual foundation, they focus on policy changes (especially of the last two decades) in different social policy areas, including old-age, labour market, family, healthcare, and social assistance policies.

As the comparative chapters conclude, European welfare system landscapes have been in constant motion in the last two decades. While austerity is not to be seen on the aggregate level, the in-depth country studies show that all policy sectors have been characterised by different reform directions and ideas. The findings not only reveal both change and continuity, but also policy reversal as a distinct type that characterises social policy reform. The book provides a rich resource to the international welfare state research community, and is also useful for social policy teaching.

Table of contents: 

1. Reform pathways of European welfare systems

2. Austrification in welfare system change?

3. Belgium’s welfare system

4. The Bulgarian welfare system

5. The restructuring of the Cypriot welfare system

6. Hybridisation and diversification

7. The German welfare system

8. Denmark – a universal welfare system with restricted austerity

9. The welfare system in Estonia

10. The Spanish welfare system

11. Still holding its breath

12. The recalibration of the French welfare system

13. ‘Liberalising’ social protection amid austerity in Greece

14. The Croatian welfare system

15. Pathway to a punitive workfare system

16. The welfare system in Ireland over the last 20 years

17. The Italian welfare system

18. The Lithuanian welfare system over the last 20 years of democratic transition

19. Changes in Luxembourg’s welfare system (1998–2018)

20. Social policy reforms in Latvia

21. The Maltese welfare system

22. The Dutch participatory state

23. Politics of welfare

24. The Portuguese welfare system

25. The Romanian welfare system

26. The Swedish welfare system

27. Restructuring the Slovenian welfare system

28. The Slovak welfare system

29. The United Kingdom

30. European Union social policy

31. The development of welfare state spending in the EU, 1995–2015

32. Landscapes in motion

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