The changing face of welfare: Consequences and outcomes from a citizenship perspective
Jorgen Goul Andersen, Anne-Marie Guillemard, Per H. Jensen, and Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Abstract
There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe. It applies a dynamic and change-oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding social change. Using citizenship as a focus, several dimensions of change are analysed simultaneously: cha ... More
There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe. It applies a dynamic and change-oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding social change. Using citizenship as a focus, several dimensions of change are analysed simultaneously: changes in the discipline of social policy itself; the changing character of social problems; changes in social policy and citizenship; and the emergence of new forms of social integration. The book also speculates on how different dimensions of change are interlinked.
Keywords:
social policy,
European welfare reform,
citizenship,
social problems,
social integration
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781861345929 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861345929.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jorgen Goul Andersen, editor
Anne-Marie Guillemard, editor
Per H. Jensen, editor
Birgit Pfau-Effinger, editor
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