Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare Social Policy Directions in Uncertain Times /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Taylor-Gooby, Peter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Leruth, Benjamin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social policy.; Welfare state.; Political sociology.; Public policy.; Comparative Social Policy.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Political Sociology.; Public Policy.

This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries. The forum method yields new insights into how people frame social issues, their priorities and acceptable solutions. This is the first time democratic forums have been used as a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. New Challenges for the Welfare State and New Ways to Study Them
• 2. Individualism and neo-liberalism
• 3. European welfare nationalism: A deliberative forum study in five countries
• 4. Attitudes to inequalities: Citizen deliberation about the (re-)distribution of income and wealth in four welfare state regimes
• 5. Intergenerational solidarity and the sustainability of state welfare
• 6. The provision of care - whose responsibility and why?
• 7. Healthcare futures: Visions of solidarity and the sustainability of European healthcare systems
• 8. Labour market challenges and the role of social investment
• 9. Democratic forums and welfare state attitudes. .