What is the impact of norms enacted by international organizations on the rights of foreigners in comtemporary Western Europe? In this article, I trace the process of the incorporation of European Court of Human Rights and European Court of Justice legal norms in the jurisprudence and policies...

Transnationalism has two interpretations. In the first one, transnationalism refers to some combination of plural-civic memberships , economic involvements, social networks, and cultural identities reaching across and linking people and institutions in two or more nation-states in diverse,...

Two transformations are currently under way in Western Europe, one rapid, the other slow, but both stressful. In the labour market, mass unemployment and work flexibilisation have endermined personal security and unrevelled social cohesion. In domestic life, the demise of the male breadwinner...

The objective of this paper is to analyse how different countries approach the objective of equity in the provision of long-term care. Explicitly or implicitly, welfare state definitions and social policy definitions include notions such as equity, justice or equality, theyr are even at the core...

Nous faisons l'hyothese que ce sont notamment les configurations institutionnelles particulieres des differents systemes de protection sociale qui permettent de comprendre non seulement les differences d'enjeux politiques de la crise de l'Etat-providence, mais encore les differences dans les...

The Spanish welfare state incorporates elements of both Bismarckian and Beveridgean traditions, and can be labelled as a via media with respect to other existing regimes of social protection. It also represents a middle way of decommodification and gendering, and of universal and means-tested...

In this paper, the authors look at trends in social security reform activity in all of the Nordic countries with the exception of Iceland. They shall first briefly compare the status of the welfare state around 1990 with that of 1997; to be followed by an account of the economic and political...

The paper examines the gender relations upsheld by the Italian welfare state, and points out that the reforms of cash transfer programs, which took place after 1992, reinforce the "male -breadwinner/female -housekeeper" model.