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Welfare States and the Future

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. B. Vivekanandan

    1. School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

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  2. Nimmi Kurian

    1. Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Welfare States and the Future

    • B. Vivekanandan, Nimmi Kurian
    Pages 1-13

  3. Welfare States in Perspective

    • Pradip Bose
    Pages 14-19

  4. Economic Foundations of Welfare State Systems

    • Sandwip Kumar Das
    Pages 20-40

  5. A World Economy Based on the Welfare State Principle

    • Hartmut Elsenhans
    Pages 41-61

  6. Globalization and Welfare States

    • Ramesh Mishra
    Pages 62-77

  7. The British Welfare State: Development and Challenges

    • Tom Burden
    Pages 78-96

  8. The Welfare State System in France

    • Sophie Nadal
    Pages 97-112

  9. The Welfare State in Postwar Germany

    • Lutz Leisering
    Pages 113-130

  10. The Welfare State in Austria

    • Emmerich Talos, Marcel Fink
    Pages 131-150

  11. The Swedish Welfare State and New Challenges

    • Nimmi Kurian
    Pages 151-160

  12. Political Economy of the Finnish Welfare State

    • Jukka Pekkarinen
    Pages 161-177

  13. Challenges Facing the Danish Welfare State

    • Jørn Henrik Petersen
    Pages 178-199

  14. Modernization of the European Model of Social Protection

    • Joakim Palme
    Pages 200-222

  15. Recent Welfare Reforms in the United States

    • Asha Gupta
    Pages 223-236

  16. Canada’s Changing Welfare State

    • B. Vivekanandan
    Pages 237-271

  17. Welfare Designs and Peripheral Realities: The Brazilian Dilemma

    • Dilip Loundo
    Pages 272-296

  18. South Africa: Reflections on Establishing a Welfare State

    • Albert J. Venter
    Pages 297-316

  19. The Welfare State in Japan and China: Development and Challenges

    • Christian Aspalter
    Pages 317-335

  20. The Welfare State System in India

    • Anand Kumar
    Pages 336-363
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About this book

This volume presents a thought provoking analysis of key welfare state issues engaging policy makers across the globe. It provides a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the state of welfare states- developed and developing. It maps the diversity of welfare regimes across the world and brings to fore the particularities and nuances that characterise them. The book also focuses on the on-going reforms and makes a powerful case for the increased relevance of the welfare state in a globalizing era.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

    B. Vivekanandan

  • Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India

    Nimmi Kurian

About the editors

CHRISTIAN ASPALTER Department of Social Work, Chaoyang University, Taiwan, Republic of China PRADIP BOSE President, Indian Centre for Democratic Socialism, New Delhi, India TOM BURDEN Principal Lecturer of Political Science, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK S.K. DAS Professor of International Economics and former Dean, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India HARTMUT ELSENHANS Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany GEORGE FERNANDES Minister of Defence, Government of India MARCEL FINK Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria ASHA GUPTA Principal, Bharati Mahila College, Delhi University, Delhi, India ANAND KUMAR Professor of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India LUTZ LEISERING Professor of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany DILIP LOUNDO Brazilian Chair, Goa University, Goa, India RAMESH MISHRA Professor Emeritus, York University, Canada SOPHIE NADAL Associate Professor, Department of Law, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France JOAKIM PALME Senior Research, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, Sweden JUKKA PEKKARINEN Director, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland JORN HENRIK PETERSEN Professor of Social Policy, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark EMMERICH TALOS Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria ALBERT J. VENTER Professor of Government and Politics, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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