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Globalisation, integration and the future of European welfare states / Theodora-Ismene Gizelis.

By:

Gizelis, Theodora-Ismene [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010Description: viii, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0719081106
9780719081101

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

361.65094 22

LOC classification:

JC479 .G57 2010

Contents:

Challenges to the European welfare states -- The welfare state and political stability -- Challenges to the modern European welfare states -- European welfare states in a comparative setting -- The European Union and the welfare state -- The future of the welfare state in Europe.

Summary: Argues that the welfare state cannot be understood purely as a set of social policy arrangements but must be seen as a political institution intended to achieve certain political objectives, including decreasing risk of political instability. However, aging populations and increasing economic globalization and integration create tensions between social and political objectives.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-169) and index.

Argues that the welfare state cannot be understood purely as a set of social policy arrangements but must be seen as a political institution intended to achieve certain political objectives, including decreasing risk of political instability. However, aging populations and increasing economic globalization and integration create tensions between social and political objectives.

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