Welfare State Transformations Comparative

This edited volume provides new empirical evidence of far-reaching changes to welfare states globally, which have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private' domain within the mixed economies of welfare. Various modes of policy intervention are investigated, providing a nuanced account of reforms in the past decade.

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Politics, University of Oxford, UK

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. x
Welfare State Transformations in Comparative Perspective: Shifting Boundaries of 'Public' and 'Private' Social Policy?	p. 1
State Perspectives	p. 15
Welfare State Reforms in the United Kingdom	p. 17
Welfare State Transformations in an Affluent Scandinavian State: The Case of Denmark	p. 33
The Public-Private Mix in Southern Europe: What Changed in the Last Decade?	p. 56
Metamorphoses of Welfare States in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 79
The State of Japanese Welfare, Welfare and the Japanese State	p. 96
Policy Perspectives	p. 109
Politically Dominant but Socially Flawed: Projected Pension Levels for Citizens at Risk in Six European Multi-Pillar Pension Systems	p. 111
The Changing Public-Private Mix in OECD Health-care Systems	p. 132
From Liberal Statism to Statist Liberalism: The Transformation of Unemployment Policies in Europe	p. 147
The Transformation of Incapacity Benefits	p. 164
The 'Public' and 'Private' of Work-Family Reconciliation: Unsettling Gendered Notions and Assumptions	p. 182
Conclusions	p. 195
Reconstructing Nation, State and Welfare: The Transformation of Welfare States	p. 197
Multiple and Multi-Dimensional Welfare State Transformations	p. 210
Notes	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 261
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