This book takes as a starting point that welfare states in developed societies do not provide systems of social insurance against the risk of an early death. In contrast to the way in which economically developed countries provide ways of insuring citizens against other possibilities, such as...

Alterung und Globalisierung erzwingen eine grundlegende Anpassung des Wohlfahrtsstaates. Eine Feinsteuerung der traditionellen Umlagesysteme kann den Negativkreislauf aus steigender Steuer- und Beitragsbelastung, Entmutigung der Arbeitsanreize und Erwerbsbeteiligung, und der Verlagerung der...

Politics of new social risk -- New social risks and the politics of post-industrial social policies / Giuliano Bonoli -- Political parties and new social risks: the double backlash against social democracy and Christian democracy / Hans Keman, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis -- New social...