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Social Inequality and Leading Principles in Welfare States

The Impact of Institutional Marketization, Fragmentation and Equalization on Social Structure

By: Patricia Frericks

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Social Inequality and Leading Principles in Welfare States

The Impact of Institutional Marketization, Fragmentation and Equalization on Social Structure

By: Patricia Frericks

Since the 1990s, and increasingly so, European welfare states have been undergoing fundamental change. The analysis presented in this book shows that these changes may be interpreted as a paradigmatic shift of European societies, since fundamental concepts, principles and societal effects of welfare institutions have been redefined, reset and rearranged. Given contemporary institutional, economic, social and cultural changes, current post-industrial forms of welfare states are characterised by a very different logic than that which prevailed some 30 years ago. This logic, while being ambivalent in certain areas, brings about highly modified societies. This book provides an understanding and identification of different facets of this paradigmatic shift, in order to contribute to the bigger picture of welfare state and societal change. Rather than referring to persisting differences in welfare state regimes, which are in parts identified here also, it directs its attention towards new and cross-country and cross-regime developments and tensions. The interpretations of welfare state change found in other studies, thereby, are enhanced in original ways. The theoretically-based empirical analysis of welfare state change departs from the generally accepted insight that mature democratic welfare states depend on social cohesion. The central question of this study, therefore, is how emancipatory past and present welfare state regulations are. The results show that the mechanisms, visibility and lines of social inequality differ significantly after three decades of partly fundamental reforms characterized by marketization, fragmentation and equalisation of welfare provision.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Social Inequality and Leading Principles in Welfare States

The Impact of Institutional Marketization, Fragmentation and Equalization on Social Structure

By: Patricia Frericks

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The Impact of Institutional Marketization, Fragmentation and Equalization on Social Structure

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European Capitalist Welfare Societies

The Challenge of Sustainability

By: P. Frericks,R. Maier

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European Capitalist Welfare Societies

The Challenge of Sustainability

By: P. Frericks,R. Maier

This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rights. Capitalism is defined as a multi-model economy, comprising of a market economy (including production, distribution and exchange), a state welfare economy (based on compulsory transfers, such as taxes and social contributions), a household economy and a voluntary economy. The resources for the welfare economy are produced by some activities of the life course, and used by other activities, once rights over these resources are acquired. Setting out a new conceptual framework that integrates an adapted version of the theory of instituted economic processes with the changing structuration of the life course in European countries, the book argues that European capitalist welfare societies are not sustainable in their present form and that the future financing of social rights is conditional on substantial transformations. The book also analyzes relevant data on the socio-economic positioning of women and migrants.

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0230378412

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Social Inequality and Leading Principles in Welfare States

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European Capitalist Welfare Societies

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