Welfare States
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Social Justice in a Turbulent Era
Edited by Gary Craig
This incisive book examines how the values of social justice can be protected against attacks from the interacting economic, social, environmental, and health crises of the 21st century. Global contributors outline key elements of a poli... -
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Western Welfare Capitalisms in Good Times and Bad
Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, John Quiggin
Western Welfare Capitalisms in Good Times and Bad provides an insightful appraisal of policy priorities and outcomes in four Western regimes: the Anglo-American liberal regimes, Southern European ‘proto-corporatist’ regimes, the historic... -
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Healthcare and Elderly Care in Europe
Thomas Bahle, Mareike Ariaans, Katharina Koch, Claus Wendt
Given growing caseloads, limited funding and staff shortages, the need for coordination in healthcare and elderly care is at an all-time high. This timely book conducts a cross-national analysis of coordination problems in healthcare and... -
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A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare
Edited by Femke Roosma, Tijs Laenen
Bringing together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars, A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare draws upon past and contemporary research methods used to study citizens’ attitudes to welfare. It highligh... -
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Care Homes in a Turbulent Era
Edited by Pat Armstrong, Susan Braedley
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care ho... -
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The Future of Social Care
Peter Beresford, Colin Slasberg
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care polic... -
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Welfare States in a Turbulent Era
Edited by Bent Greve
This insightful book provides a systematic analysis of the development of affluent Western welfare states in this turbulent era. It explores the consequences for welfare states of modern crises such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandem... -
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A Research Agenda for Basic Income
Malcolm Torry
Highlighting the diversity and complexity of the global Basic Income debate, Malcolm Torry assesses the history, current state and future of research in this important field. Each chapter offers a concise history of a particular subfield... -
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Redesigning the Welfare State
Hans-Werner Sinn, Christian Holzner, Wolfgang Meister, Wolfgang Ochel, Martin Werding
Redesigning the Welfare State argues that the current high level of unemployment in Germany not only creates a major challenge for the German welfare state, but is to a good extent caused by the way the country's welfare system is design... -
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Social Europe
Edited by Richard Berthoud, Maria Iacovou
Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspec... -
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Social Exclusion in European Welfare States
Edited by Ruud Muffels, Panos Tsakloglou, David G. Mayes
Social Exclusion in European Welfare States focuses on the complex relationship between economic welfare, labour market performance and social inclusion/exclusion. The contributors in the volume examine in detail the alleged trade-off be...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Welfare State in Europe
Edited by Marco Buti, Daniele Franco, Lucio R. Pench
This book analyses the main problems in the functioning of the welfare state and possible actions for its reform. Focusing on the European Union, it looks at the achievements of and challenges to the welfare state as we enter the 21st c...eBook:Find out more$40.00