The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are right up to date. The first seven sections of the book cover the themes of Ethics, History, Approaches, Inputs and Actors, Policies, Policy Outcomes, and Worlds of Welfare. A final chapter is devoted to the future of welfare and well-being under the imperatives of climate change. Every chapter is written in a way that is both comprehensive and succinct, introducing the novice reader to the essentials of what is going on while providing new insights for the more experienced researcher. Wherever appropriate, the handbook brings the very latest empirical evidence to bear. It is a book that is thoroughly comparative in every way.

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, second edition, is a comprehensible and comprehensive survey of everything that it is important to know about the welfare state in these troubled times. It is an indispensable source for everyone who wants to know what is really going on now, and what is likely to happen next.

Daniel Béland, James McGill Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University,Kimberly J. Morgan, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University,Herbert Obinger, Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy, University of Bremen,Christopher
Pierson, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham

Daniel Béland is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. A specialist of comparative fiscal and social policy, he has published 20 books and more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals.


Kimberly J. Morgan is Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Her work examines the politics shaping public policies, with particular interests in migration and social welfare. She is the author Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-Family
Policy in Western Europe and the United States (Stanford University Press, 2006) and The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of American Social Policy (OUP, 2011), and co-editor of several volumes, including The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and
Social Control (Cambridge University Press, 2017).


Herbert Obinger is a Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy at the University of Bremen. He has published widely on the historical development of the welfare state in advanced democracies and comparative political economy.

Chris Pierson is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham. His work covers the inter-related themes of property, social democracy and the welfare state. His Beyond the Welfare State (1991) remains one of the most widely-cited books in the field.

1. Introduction, Daniel Béland, Kimberly Morgan, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson
Part I: Philosophical Justifications and Critiques of the Welfare State
2. Ethics, Stuart White
3. Intellectual Roots, Christopher Pierson and Matthieu Leimgruber
4. The Critics of Welfare: From Neoliberalism to Populsm, Gerda Hooijer and Desmond King
Part II: History
5. The Emergence of the Western Welfare State, Stein Kuhnle and Anne Sander
6. Post-War Welfare State Development: The 'Golden Age', Frank Nullmeier and Franz-Xaver Kaufmann
7. Recent Developments: Social Investment Reform in the 21st Century, Anton Hemerijk and Stefano Ronchi
Part III: Approaches
8. Research Methods, Edwin Amenta and Alexander Hicks
9. Public and Private Social Welfare, Willem Adema and Peter Whiteford
10. Governance, Daniel Béland and Kimberly Morgan
11. Social Investment, Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, and Bruno Palier
12. Families, State, and Markets, Mary Daly
13. Disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare States, Einar Øverbye
Part IV: Inputs and Actors
14. Needs and Risks in the Welfare State, Jan Zutavern & Martin Kohli
15. Democracy and Capitalism, Torben Iversen
16. Unions and Employers, Bernhard Ebbinghaus
17. Parties, Manfred G. Schmidt
18. Political Institutions, Ellen M. Immergut
19. Public Attitudes, Staffan Kumlin, Achim Goerres, and Dennis C. Spies
20. Gender, Ann Shola Orloff and Marie Laperriere
21. Religion, Kees Van Kersbergen and Philip Manow
22. Migration and Ethnic Minorities, Simone Scarpa, Stephen Castles, and Carl-Ulrik Schierup
23. European and National Social Policy, Manfred G. Schmidt
24. Intergovernmental Organizations, Klaus Armingeon
25. Globalization, Duane Swank
Part V: Policies
26. Social Expenditure and Welfare State Financing, Herbert Obinger
27. The Welfare State as Employer, Karin Gottschall nad Markus Tepe
28. Old-Age Pensions, Karl Hinrichs and Julia F. Lynch
29. Health, Heinz Rothgang
30. Long-Term Care, August Österle and Heinz Rothgang
31. Work Accident and Sickness Benefits, Olli Kangas
32. Disability, Mark Priestley
33. Unemployment Insurance, Ola Sjöberg, Joakim Palme, and Eero Carroll
34. Employment Promotion, Lane Kenworthy
35. The Regulation of Employment, Patrick Emmenegger and Paul Marx
36. Social Assistance, Thomas Bahle and Claus Wendt
37. Family Benefits and Services, Naomi Finch and Jonathan Bradshaw
38. Housing, Tony Fahey and Michelle Norris
39. Education, Marius R. Busemeyer and Rita Nikolai
Part VI: Policy Outcomes
40. The Social Rights of Citizenship, John D. Stephens
41. Inequality and Poverty, Peter Saunders
42. Macroeconomic Outcomes, Christopher Pierson and Isabela Mares
43. Gendered Outcomes, Jennifer Hook and Leah Ruppanner
44. Welfare Retrenchment, Jonah D. Levy
Part VII: World of Welfare
45. Models of the Welfare State, Philip Manow
46. The Nordic Countries, Mikko Kautto and Kati Kuitto
47. Continental Western Europe, Bruno Palier
48. The South European Countries, Maurizio Ferrara
49. The English-Speaking Countries, Christoper Pierson and Francis G. Castles
50. Central and Eastern European Countries, Linda J. Cook and Tomasz Inglot
Prospects
51. From Welfare State to Planetary Wellbeing, Ian Gough