Overview
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Martin Rhodes
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Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
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Yves Mény
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Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Institut d’ Etudes Politiques, Paris, France
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Europe’s Social Contract under Stress
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Welfare Systems Under Stress
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Welfare and the Global Arena
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Front Matter
Pages 155-155
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The Search for a New Social Contract
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Front Matter
Pages 227-227
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Back Matter
Pages 284-287
About this book
European welfare states are currently under stress and the 'social contracts' that underpin them are being challenged. First, welfare spending has arguably 'grown to limits' in a number of countries while expanding everywhere in the 1990s in line with higher unemployment. Second, demographic change and the emergence of new patterns of family and working life are transforming the nature of 'needs'. Third, the economic context and the policy autonomy of nation states has been transformed by 'globalization'. This book considers the implications of these challenges for European welfare states at the end of the twentieth century with interdisciplinary contributions from first-rate political scientists, economists and sociologists including Paul Ormerod.
Editors and Affiliations
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Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Martin Rhodes,
Yves Mény
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Institut d’ Etudes Politiques, Paris, France
Yves Mény
About the editors
CARLOS CLOSA Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Administration, Complutense University, Madrid
COLIN CROUCH Professor of Political and Social Science, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
BOB DEACON Professor of Social Policy and Director of the International Social Policy Research Unit, Leeds Metropolitan University
MAURIZIO FERRERA Professor of Public Policy and Administration, University of Pavia
ULRIKE GOTTING Research Fellow, Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen
BILL JORDAN Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Work and Probation Studies, University of Exeter
PAUL ORMEROD Chairman of Post-Orthodox Economics, London and Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Manchester
SERGE PAUGAM Sociologist, CNRS
GIOVANNA PROCACCI Research Director, Department of Sociology, University of Milan
FRITZ SCHARPF Professor of Political Science, Max Planck Institute fur Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne, Germany
KAREL VAN DEN BOSCH Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp
