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  title info:
    title: Enabling Social Policy
  name:
    name part: Maydell, B. v.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Borchardt, K.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Henke, K.-D.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Leitner, R.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Muffels, R.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Quante, M.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rauhala, P.-L.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Verschraegen, G.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Żukowski, M.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Wütscher, Friederike.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: LXXII, 336 p. online resource.
  abstract: ‘Enabling Social Europe’ examines how the paradigm of the ‘enabling welfare state’ might offer a new perspective for European social policy in the decades to come. The ‘enabling’ concept is perceived as going beyond that of mere ‘activation’, thus also embracing policies aimed at increasing personal autonomy, individual responsibility and social inclusion by endowing individuals with the resources and capabilities needed to manage and balance their life courses in a better way. The study is distinguished by a unique collaboration of social and economic policy experts coming from a wide range of disciplines: economics, law, sociology, political science, and philosophy. The authors seek to shed new light on whether European social policy ought to play a role in the future and, if so, what sort of role that could be. They convincingly argue that despite an implicit normative consensus on the ‘European social model’, there is still room for a multifaceted world in which welfare regimes can maintain their own path-dependent ways of achieving a fair and just society with a high level of welfare for all. The empirical part of the book contains an appraisal of policies and reforms with a view to the ‘enabling welfare state’ approach in four important policy areas: health care, old-age security, family policy, and poverty prevention. Within each sector, the authors compare the policies and practices of two countries attributable to different regime types: Germany and the United Kingdom, Poland and Germany, Finland and Estonia, and Belgium and Denmark. This book is highly recommendable not only for scholars and policymakers active in this field, but also for students of welfare and labour economics, sociology, social policy, political science and law.
  table of contents: Social Policy in the 21st Century -- European Union and Social Policy -- National and Supra-national Social Policy: Comparative Case Studies -- Elements of a European Social Policy -- Erratum.
  note: by B. v. Maydell, K. Borchardt, K.-D. Henke, R. Leitner, R. Muffels, M. Quante, P.-L. Rauhala, G. Verschraegen, M. Żukowski ; edited by Friederike Wütscher.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Social structure
  subject:
    topic: Social inequality
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Social Structure, Social Inequality
  subject:
    topic: Engineering, general
  classification: HM706
  classification: HM821-821.17
  classification: 305
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  identifier: 9783540297727
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29772-3
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