BIG WELFARE STATES IN GLOBAL MARKETS: INTERNATIONALIZATION AND WELFARE STATE REFORM IN THE NORDIC SOCIAL DEMOCRACIES

2002 ◽  
pp. 122-160
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
State Reform ◽  
Welfare State Reform

Afterword: Welfare State Reform, Recognition and Emotional Labor

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arlie Hochschild
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
State Reform ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Welfare State Reform ◽  
Do So

In this themed section, the editors and authors take us far beyond the usual thinking about welfare reform. How, they ask, do politicians want us to feel about welfare reform? How do we think we should feel and how do we feel about it? How does the disabled woman who has lost her government-provided caregiver and ‘hasn't been out of the house since Christmas’, feel about it? Or the man who petitions to restore his lost government aid – but fails to do so? Or the wealthy Dutch tax payer? These are are the sorts of questions that arise in the study of a changing welfare states.

scholarly journals Retrenchment and restructuring in an age of austerity: what (if anything) can be learned from the affluent democracies?

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (suppl) ◽  
pp. S7-S11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Pierson
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
State Reform ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Policy Dynamics ◽  
Welfare State Reform

The article discusses some difficulties of drawing implications from welfare state reform in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for "middle-income countries", and whose welfare states have been less well institutionalized. It is argued that globalization's role in contemporary social policy dynamics were not unimportant, but social processes occurring within national contexts were probably more important. There is not a single "new politics of the welfare state" but distinct political dynamics in different "regimes" or "configurations", which are characterized by different problem loads and different structures of political opportunity. Different factors are crucial in explaining outcomes in different configurations and there is little reason to expect much convergence in social policy outcomes across regime type. Contemporary welfare state reform is depicted as a process of restructuring rather than dismantling, what can encourage the possibilities for developing coalitions advancing multi-dimensional agendas of welfare state reform.

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