Editors:
- Provides a detailed examination of people’s attitudes to welfare in a range of representative European countries
- Includes chapters covering attitude surveys and their relevance to policy-making at a time of rapid change
- Covers a wide range of topics including education, immigration, healthcare, and neoliberalism
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries. The forum method yields new insights into how people frame social issues, their priorities and acceptable solutions. This is the first time democratic forums have been used as a research tool in this field.
The contributors’ research show that most people recognize growing inequality, population ageing, paying for health care and pensions, social care and immigration as areas where the welfare state faces real challenges. The most striking findings are the high level of support across all countries for social investment, and the way justifications for this vary between welfare state regimes. The authors also explore key areas such as immigration and intergenerational differences.
Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including politics, social policy and sociology, as wellas policy-makers.
Reviews
“This volume offers convincing arguments for the importance of consensus. In a context of declining solidarity and rising populism, and with past social achievements under threat, this is a timely and necessary message. Policy-makers, employers’ organizations, trade unions and academics, would benefit from reading the feasible and plausible recommendations and insights of this book.” (Hedva Sarfati,International Social Security Review, Vol. 72 (2), 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Peter Taylor-Gooby
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Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Benjamin Leruth
About the editors
Peter Taylor-Gooby is Research Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent, UK.
Benjamin Leruth is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare
Book Subtitle: Social Policy Directions in Uncertain Times
Editors: Peter Taylor-Gooby, Benjamin Leruth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75783-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75782-7Published: 11 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09327-3Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75783-4Published: 27 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 317
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Political Sociology, Public Policy