Welfare State Transformations: Comparative Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Welfare State Transformations in Comparative Perspective: Shifting Boundaries of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Social Policy?....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Welfare State Reforms in the United Kingdom....Pages 17-32
Welfare State Transformations in an Affluent Scandinavian State: The Case of Denmark....Pages 33-55
The Public-Private Mix in Southern Europe: What Changed in the Last Decade?....Pages 56-78
Metamorphoses of Welfare States in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 79-95
The State of Japanese Welfare, Welfare and the Japanese State....Pages 96-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Politically Dominant but Socially Flawed: Projected Pension Levels for Citizens at Risk in Six European Multi-Pillar Pension Systems....Pages 111-131
The Changing Public-Private Mix in OECD Health-care Systems....Pages 132-146
From Liberal Statism to Statist Liberalism: The Transformation of Unemployment Policies in Europe....Pages 147-163
The Transformation of Incapacity Benefits....Pages 164-181
The ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ of Work-Family Reconciliation: Unsettling Gendered Notions and Assumptions....Pages 182-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Reconstructing Nation, State and Welfare: The Transformation of Welfare States....Pages 197-209
Multiple and Multi-Dimensional Welfare State Transformations....Pages 210-221
Back Matter....Pages 222-264