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Gobalisation and the future of the welfare state
Chen, Yu-Fu; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis; Molana, Hassan - 2014
The conventional wisdom is that increasing globalisation requires a reduction in the provision of the welfare state among industrialised countries as the distortions resulting from this type of expenditure undermine international competitiveness and the ability of countries to attract and/or...
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Greece as a Precautionary Tale of the Welfare State
Hatzis, Aristides N. - 2013
Few contemporary democracies offer tales of institutional failure as startling as that of Greece. Despite a turbulent political history in the twentieth century, the Greek economy gained ground during decades of actual wealth creation, until the country’s main parties started to compete on the...
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Identifying barriers to institutional change in disability services
Scharle, Ágota; Váradi, Balázs - 2013
In a comparative framework, the paper uses a recently observed shift away from cash transfers and towards the provision of rehabilitation services to identify barriers to welfare policy reform. The analysis relies on the assumption that some European welfare regimes have a similar initial...
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Rationale Sozialpolitik : die Produktion von Sicherheit und Gerechtigkeit in modernen Gesellschaften und ihre Implikationen für die ökonomische Theorie der Sozialpolitik
Schönig, Werner - 2001
Sozialpolitik nach ihrem Ziel, den inneren, materiellen Zusammenhang der Gesellschaft zu stärken. -- Inwiefern erfordern nun die … speziellen, veränderten Rahmenbedingungen moderner Gesellschaften eine besondere Ausprägung rationaler Sozialpolitik? Gemäß dem … Dreischritt der rationalen Politikanalyse lassen sich Lage, Ziel und Mittel der praktischen Sozialpolitik in modernen …
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Policy convergence across welfare regimes : the case of disability policies
Scharle, Ágota; Váradi, Balázs; Samu, Flóra - 2015
Drawing on the analysis in MS9, this paper summarises the policy relevant lessons on what drives and hinders institutional change in services for people with disabilities in EU Member States, and offers some recommendations on how such changes may be facilitated. The focus is mainly on the...
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The Politics of Social Protection in Ghana : Policy Reform in a Competitive African Democracy (2000-2014)
Grebe, Eduard - 2017
The Kufuor (New Patriotic Party) administration of 2000-2008 implemented substantial reforms of the contributory social insurance system (including the introduction of a national health insurance scheme and a new 'three tier' pensions system), and introduced a range of social assistance schemes...
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Capitalism, democracy, and welfare
Iversen, Torben - 2005 - 1. publ.
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Local Welfare for Social Inclusion : A New Institutional Approach to Welfare Policy Reform in Italy
Garofalo, Maria Rosaria; Supino, Maria Rosaria; … - 2011
In the current political-institutional debate in Europe, starting from '90, about local development incentives and promotion of innovative enterprises, our focus is on welfare reform based on decentralization, as power devolution to local agencies and communities. This new approach on welfare...
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Unemployment and subsequent employment stability : does labour market policy matter?
Wulfgramm, Melike; Fervers, Lukas - In: Socio-economic review 13 (2015) 4, pp. 791-812
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