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This paper aims to describe and explain different welfare state responses to three major economic crises: the Oil Shocks of the 1970s, the worldwide recession of the 1990s and the current Financial Crisis. Policy developments in three small open economies – Sweden, the Netherlands and...
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Conventional wisdom has it that the EU is unable to promote viable social integration, which contrasts with its commitments to improving working and living conditions and to social values and goals such as solidarity, social protection and social inclusion. This article challenges two different...
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Introduction: towards a political economy of social policy -- The historical origins of welfare systems, 1945-80 -- Social policy in Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, 1945-1980: an overview -- The expansion of welfare commitments in Latin America, 1945-80 -- The evolution of social...
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Over one million people work for a faith-based welfare provider in Germany. Caritas and Diakonie, the largest faith …-based providers in Germany enjoy prerogatives that do not exist in other countries. This particular group of faith-based organizations … regulation of faith-based practice in Germany. Much less attention has been devoted to the faith component within faith …
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