Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe

• Author(s): P. Taylor-Gooby,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 179
• ISBN_10: 0230286011
  ISBN_13: 9780230286016
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / World / European , Social Science / Sociology / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / General , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , Political Science / History & Theory ,

Description:... The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy assumptions and goals of the key actors is central to this process. This book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.