Challenges of Establishing an Islamic Welfare State: A Historical Overview of Welfare System Developments in Post-Revolution Iran

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-136
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar Tajmazinani
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Historical Overview

scholarly journals Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Romania

2020 ◽  
pp. 361-377
Author(s):  
Irina Burlacu ◽  
Sorina Soare ◽  
Daniela Vintila
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Life Cycle Stages ◽  
Social Provisions

Abstract This chapter examines to what extent the Romanian welfare system covers resident citizens compared to foreigners residing in Romania and Romanians living abroad. In doing so, we analyse existing social policies aiming to ensure their coverage against a variety of risks at different life-cycle stages, including unemployment, poverty, sickness and old-age. The main conclusion is that the Romanian welfare state is open to all residents, regardless of their nationality, thus providing everyone equal grounds for accessing social benefits. The criterion of residence on the Romanian soil is, however, prevalent. This implies that relatively few social provisions are extended for non-resident Romanians, which represent an increasingly sizeable community given the intensity of migration outflows in recent years. Furthermore, the Romanian social protection system has had relatively little impact on reducing the risk of poverty and income inequality in the country, despite regular amendments during the last years.

scholarly journals I, Daniel Blake (2016): Vulnerability, Care and Citizenship in Austerity Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Gibbs ◽  
Aura Lehtonen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
The Uk

This article offers a reading of Ken Loach’s 2016 film I, Daniel Blake, a fictionalised account of experiences of the UK welfare system in conditions of austerity. We consider, firstly, the significant challenge the film poses to dominant figurations of welfare recipients under austerity, through a focus on vulnerability to state processes. We follow with a reading of some of the film’s interventions in relation to reciprocity, drawing on the important trajectories of care, community and resistance that the film renders visible through the collective stories of the major characters. Finally, we conclude with reflections on citizenship, subject narratives and alternative imaginaries of ‘deservingness’. Our article offers an ‘against the grain’ reading (hooks, 1996; Wearing, 2013) of the film, highlighting some of the radical possibilities of the more minor moments, character arcs and subject positionalities within the film’s central narrative of Daniel’s experiences in the shadow of the steadily crumbling welfare state.

Why so Austere? The British Welfare State of the 1940s

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIM TOMLINSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Financial Contribution ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Post War ◽  
New System

The reforms of the welfare system under the 1945 Labour government are usually regarded as fundamental in creating the post-war welfare state. Yet, measured by their financial implications, and viewed in comparison with either pre-war Britain or other Western European countries in the same period, these reforms appear strikingly limited. Far from bringing a ‘New Jerusalem’, the 1940s reforms seem to have brought into being an austere, minimalist structure of welfare provision. The reasons for this are examined, especially the forces shaping the new social security system. It is argued that the combination of the Labour government's economic priorities, its acceptance of the Beveridge legacy and the Treasury pressure to limit the Exchequer's financial contribution to the new system, led to this austerity.

Change and Stability in Work Commitment in Norway: from Adolescence to Adulthood

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTER HYGGEN
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Work Commitment ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
State Research ◽  
The Welfare State

The individual's commitment to work has occupied a central place in much welfare state research. This centrality relates to beliefs that welfare system design influences the ways in which people come to value employment. If, as believed, generous benefit systems diminish citizens' willingness to work, then these systems undermine both the legitimacy and the performance of the welfare state. This article explores change and stability in work commitment in a Norwegian cohort born between 1965 and 1968. We investigate whether and if so how individuals' experience with the welfare system and their personal, family or work experiences influenced their level of work commitment between 1993 and 2003, from adolescence to adulthood. Findings show work commitment as relatively stable across the ten years, with some individual-level change relative to changes in family life (such as becoming a parent) and in work experience (such as long-term unemployment). Results indicate that the fear of disincentive effects on individuals' work commitment is exaggerated.

Development of Welfare State under Automation Control

2013 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 467-471
Author(s):  
Fang Liu ◽  
Qi Wu
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Automation Control

This article has embedded welfare triangle paradigm in empirical research by social exclusion and social policy. Starting from the situation in Sweden and Finland, it has analyzed the convergence and the differences in paradigm content. At the same time, by using the social research to quantitative analysis the data, it has drawn the economic recession and recovery. Based on the above analysis, it is necessary to build a welfare system that in line with the national condition, to select a long-term welfare system mechanism, and to constantly improve the prototype of the welfare system that has begun to take shape.

The Future of the Slovenian Welfare State and Challenges to Solidarity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maša Filipovič Hrast ◽  
Tatjana Rakar
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Step Change ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Using Data

Social provision in Slovenia has pursued a gradual path of development towards a post-socialist model. The country faced a pronounced recession after the 2008 economic crisis, with a second recession in 2012. This was further exacerbated by political instability with a restructuring of left and right political coalitions. These pressures, coupled with an emphasis on austerity, led to structural reforms of the welfare system, which resulted in a step change in the reform process. This chapter considers future directions in welfare in Slovenia, using data from attitude surveys and analysing policy documents in order to examine current patterns of solidarity and division in support for different aspect of welfare state provision.

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