Summary Readings Comparative Social Policy Elaborate
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Comparative Social Policy
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Tilburg University (UVT)
Elaborate summary of all readings of the course Comparative Social Policy. Be aware that some parts are complemented with the use of AI and that some parts contain spelling or grammar mistakes. Most of it is summarized by myself. Hopefully it helps you to understand the readings better.
Contents
Intro....................................................................................................................... 2
DONE# Nelson, Nieuwenhuis, Yerkes - Social policy in changing European
Societies pp. 1-7................................................................................................. 2
DONE# Van Leeuwen – Logic of Charity: poor relief in preindustrial Europe......4
Week 1 (HC1)......................................................................................................... 6
DONE# Hudson, Kühner, Lowe - Social Security. In The Short Guide to Social
Policy (pp. 15-34). Bristol: Policy Press...............................................................6
DONE# Jacques, O., & Noël, A. (2018). The Case for Welfare State
Universalism, or the Lasting Relevance of the Paradox of Redistribution. Journal
of European Social Policy, 28(1), 70- 85...........................................................10
Week 2 (HC2)...................................................................................................... 13
De Swaan, A. (1989). Social Security as the Accumulation of Transfer Capital
(pp. 152-187). In: In Care of the State. Health Care, Education and Welfare in
Europe and the USA in the Modern Era. Cambridge: Policy Press....................13
DONE# Laenen - Welfare Deservingness and Welfare Policy] Chapter 1_
Introduction_ the interaction between welfare deservingness and welfare
policy................................................................................................................ 17
#DONE) ESPING ANDERSEN – THREE WORLDS OF CAPITAL.............................19
Week 4 – HC4- Gender and the welfare state......................................................31
#DONE# Orloff, A.S. and Laperrière, M. (2021). Gender, in D. Béland et al.
(eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (pp. 346–363). Oxford:
Oxford University Press.................................................................................... 31
#DONE# Lewis, J. (1997). Gender and Welfare Regimes: Further Thoughts,
Social Politics. International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 4(2), 160–177
......................................................................................................................... 33
#DONE Mandel, H. (2009). Configurations of Gender Inequality: The
Consequences of Ideology and Public Policy. British Journal of Sociology, 60(4),
693-719............................................................................................................ 36
(Week 5) HC 5 - Welfare state resilience? The ‘new politics of the welfare state.
............................................................................................................................ 40
DONE Pierson P. (1996). The New Politics of the Welfare State. World Politics
48(January): 143- 179....................................................................................... 40
DONE Pampel F.C. and Williamson J.B. (1985). Age Structure, Politics, and
Cross-National Patterns of Public Pension Expenditures. American Sociological
Review 50(6): 782-799..................................................................................... 44
DONE Schumacher G., Vis B. and van Kersbergen K. (2013). Political Parties’
Welfare Image, Electoral Punishment and Welfare State Retrenchment.
Comparative European Politics 11(1): 1-21......................................................46
(Week 5) WC4 - How to measure and analyze the welfare state........................52
,Otto, A., & van Oorschot, W. (2019). Welfare Reform by Stealth? Cash Benefit
Recipiency Data and Its Additional Value to the Understanding of Welfare State
Change in Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 29(3), 307-324..............52
, Koito, K. (2011). More Than Just Money: Patterns of Disaggregated Welfare
Expenditure in the Enlarged Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 21(4),
348-364............................................................................................................ 54
For additional reading: (1) Kuitto, K. (2018). Measuring Welfare Entitlement
Generosity in Transitional Welfare States: The Case of Post-Communist
Countries in Central and...................................................................................57
Week 6 – HC6 – Sea change below the waterline................................................57
DONE DiPrete & Goux - Work and Pay in Flexible and Regulated Labor Markets:
A Generalized Perspective on Institutional Evolution and Inequality Trends in
Europe and the U.S. Research..........................................................................57
DONEPalier, B. (2012). Turning Vice into Vice. How Bismarckian Welfare States
Have Gone from Unsustainability to Dualization. In G. Bonoli & D. Natali (Eds.),
The Politics of the New Welfare State (pp. 233-253). Oxford: Oxford University
Press................................................................................................................. 61
DONE Busemeyer M. & Kemmerling A. (2020). Dualization, Stratification,
Liberalization, or What? An Attempt to Clarify the Conceptual Underpinnings of
the Dualization Debate. Political Science Research and Methods, 8, 375-379..64
DONE Häusermann S., Kurer T. & Schwander H. (2015). High-Skilled outsiders?
Labor Market Vulnerability, Education and Welfare State Preferences. Socio-
Economic Review 13(2): 235-258. (or another empirical article)......................66
(Week 7) HC7 - Restructuring, recalibration, and redistribution. DONE Bonoli G.
(2005). The Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage Against Social
Risks in Mature Welfare States. Policy and Politics 33(3): 431-449.....................68
DONEBonoli, G., Cantillon, B., & Van Lancker, W. (2017). Social Investment and
the Matthew Effect. Limits to a Strategy. In A. Hemerijck (Ed.), The Uses of
Social Investment (pp. 66- 76). Oxford: Oxford University Press......................72
DONENoël A. (2020). Is Social Investment Inimical to the Poor? Socio-Economic
Review 18(37): 857-880................................................................................... 72
DONEDewilde, C. (2024), The Intergenerational Transmission of Financial
Disadvantage across Europe, Social Policy & Administration. (Published Online)
......................................................................................................................... 75
Intro
DONE# Nelson, Nieuwenhuis, Yerkes - Social policy in
changing European Societies pp. 1-7
Social policy is a fundamental element in European societies, addressing social
risks like unemployment, sickness and old age. Europe has advanced systems of
redistribution and services, supported by social policy.
Social policy is broadly defined as an institutionalized response to social and
economic problems. The role of the state in social policy varies, with some tasks
performed by private or not-for-profit actors. It is primarily funded by the public
sector, but private actors also play a key role, including trade unions and
employers.
, It focuses on various issues, such as family support, gender equality, economic
stabilization and the redistributive impacts. Models vary across Europe. The
Nordics have universal approaches, while the UK and Ireland have market-based
systems.
Post WWII saw a golden age of welfare expansion, but this stagnated after the
1970s, where cutbacks were common. Family policies, including parental leave
and childcare, have expanded despite reductions in other areas.
European countries spend on average over 20% of GDP on social policy, making
it one of the largest national expenditure categories.
Social spending on out-of-work benefits has decreased in many European
countries, while spending on other areas has changed. Since 1980s, European
welfare states have seen changes in social spending composition, including
fiscalization (using the tax system), privatization, marketization and
decentralization
Social policymakers face demographic, societal, political and global challenges
such as declining fertility, ageing, family structure changes, migration, populism,
climate change and the COVID pandemic.
Social policy research studies the design, development, governance and effects
of institutions responding to social and economic challenges. This has evolved
alongside changes in social policy, addressing responses, sustainability, newer
issues like environmental change, digitalization and migration. There are more
and more international socio-economic surveys, like ESS or EVS.
The focus more on thematic and policy-specific studies (like family policy,
minimum income protection_) and new sub-fields have emerged, often focusing
on a specific target group (like family, elderly) or policy objectives (like gender
equality, social investment). So European social policy research is becoming
more specialized, with distinct sub-fields, scholarly standards and networks.
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