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The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State
Author(s): Bent Greve
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 23 Nov. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 474 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415682924
- ISBN-13: 9780415682923
Book Description
‘The welfare state’ in all its many forms has had a profound role in many countries around the world since at least the Second World War. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State explores the classical issues around the welfare state, but also investigates its key concepts, along with how these can be used and analysed.
Over forty contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The book combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive picture of what ‘the welfare state’ means around the world. In the midst of the credit crunch, the Handbook addresses some of the many questions about the welfare state.
It will be an invaluable reference book for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, international relations, politics, and gender studies.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“As a library reference source, [the collection] should be widely consulted and cited by students and researchers. The 41 chapters are all accessibly written and structured, and the scholarship is consistently reliable. The contributors offer coherent and reflective accounts of their topics within a somewhat confining word length of, mostly, between 3000 and 4000 words. […] It is good to see less conventionally prominent topics given an airing such as flexicurity, risk and the management of crime, Open Method of Coordination (OMC), prevention, the life course, the Third Way, and the Middle East.” – Critical Social Policy
About the Author
Bent Greve is professor in Social Science at the Department of Society and Globalisation, University of Roskilde, Denmark. He studies the welfare state, often in a comparative perspective. His main research interests include the welfare state, social policy, labour market policy and financing the welfare state.
