The Crisis Imperative: Crisis Rhetoric and Welfare State Reform in Belgium and the Netherlands in the Early 1990s
The Netherlands and Belgium exemplified the pathology of 'welfare without work' that characterized continental welfare states - until a political crisis in both countries produced a surprising divergence in scope and extent of policy change in the early 1990s. In Belgium, government announced major reforms but its social security arrangements proved remarkably resilient. In the Netherlands, policy makers announced and implemented unprecedented cutbacks and a major overhaul of the disability benefit administration and supervision. This book argues that reform is the product of the deliberate co... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Monographie |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
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Amsterdam Univ. Press
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Schlagwörter: | Sozialwissenschaften / Soziologie / Social sciences / sociology / anthropology / Allgemeines / spezielle Theorien und Schulen / Methoden / Entwicklung und Geschichte der Sozialpolitik / Basic Research / General Concepts and History of Social Policy / Belgien / Niederlande / Wohlfahrtsstaat / Rhetorik / Sozialpolitik / Reform / Reformpolitik / Krisenkommunikation / soziale Sicherung / institutionelle Faktoren / politisches System / soziale Krise / politischer Akteur / Belgium / Netherlands / welfare state / rhetoric / social policy / reform policy / crisis communication / social security / institutional factors / political system / social crisis / political actor |
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Link(s) : | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/32061 |