Social policy in challenging times

Economic crisis and welfare systems

Farnsworth, Kevin, Irving, Zoë

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781847428288
• eBook ISBN: 9781447306061
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

There is no precedent to the current economic crisis which looks set to redefine social policy debate throughout the globe. But its effects are not uniform across nations. Bringing together a range of expert contributions, the key lesson to emerge from this book is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by national context. Consequently, there is an array of potential trajectories for welfare systems, from those where social policy is regarded as incompatible with the post-crisis economy to those where it is considered essential to future economic growth and security.

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Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• One: Varieties of crisis
• Two: The economic crisis and paradigm change
• Three: From financial crisis to fiscal crisis
• Four: Credit crunch, inequality and social policy
• Five: Global social policy responses to the economic crisis
• Six: Poverty, the crisis and social policy responses in developing countries
• Seven: South Korea after the 1997 economic crisis: a ‘paradigm shift’?
• Eight: China’s response to crisis: what role for social policy?
• Nine: Tiptoeing through crisis? Re-evaluating the German social model in light of the global recession
• Ten: Ireland and the impact of the economic crisis: upholding the dominant policy paradigm
• Eleven: Waving not drowning: Iceland, kreppan and alternative social policy futures
• Twelve: Experiences from two financial crises in the Nordic welfare states: 1990-93 and 2008-10 compared
• Thirteen: Social policy and the recent economic crisis in Canada and the United States
• From economic crisis to a new age of austerity: the UK
• Fifteen: Responding to the challenges: some concluding remarks on welfare futures in changed circumstances
• Bibliography
• End Notes