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A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?
The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe
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This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals unexpected important structural reforms, to be understood as the culmination of a long reform trajectory, analyzed in detail with the tools of comparative historical institutionalism. With these reforms, Bismarckian welfare systems have lost their encompassing capacities, have partially turned to employment-friendliness and weakened the strongest elements of their male breadwinner bias.,"This volume is the definitive work on the politics of reform in Bismarckian welfare regimes. It is essential reading for any scholar interested in welfare reform – or indeed, in institutional and policy change more generally.",(Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology )"The contributors to the volume are all recognized experts on their field and provide strictly comparable analyses in their chapters, making this volume a gold mine for comparative welfare state scholars. Palier's volume is certain to be a benchmark study for the foreseeable future.",(John D. Stephens, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)"This volume, representing the best available scholarship in comparative socio-economic research, provides important and highly policy-relevant insights. A must-read.",(Fritz Scharpf, Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies)
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: What does it Mean to Break with Bismarck?
- 1 Ordering Change: Understanding the ‘Bismarckian ’ Welfare Reform Trajectory
- 2 A Social Insurance State Withers Away. Welfare State Reforms in Germany – Or: Attempts to Turn Around in a Cul-de-Sac
- 3 The Dualizations of the French Welfare System
- 4 Janus-Faced Developments in a Prototypical Bismarckian Welfare State: Welfare Reforms in Austria since the 1970s
- 5 Continental Welfare at a Crossroads: The Choice between Activation and Minimum Income Protection in Belgium and the Netherlands
- 6 Italy: An Uncompleted Departure from Bismarck
- 7 Defrosting the Spanish Welfare State: The Weight of Conservative Components
- 8 Reform Opportunities in a Bismarckian Latecomer: Restructuring the Swiss Welfare State
- 9 The Politics of Social Security Reforms in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
- 10 Reforming Bismarckian Corporatism: The Changing Role of Social Partnership in Continental Europe
- 11 Trajectories of Fiscal Adjustment in Bismarckian Welfare Systems
- 12 Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms
- 13 The Long Conservative Corporatist Road to Welfare Reforms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index