The Netherlands: Final Piece of the Welfare State Is Still to Come

2012 ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
Michiel van Hasslet
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Welfare State

scholarly journals Those were the days: welfare nostalgia and the populist radical right in the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Sven Schreurs
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Populist Radical Right ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract In academia and beyond, it has become commonplace to regard populist parties – in particular, those on the radical right – as the archetypical embodiment of politics of nostalgia. Demand-side studies suggest that nostalgic sentiments motivate populist radical-right (PRR) voting and welfare chauvinist attitudes, yet systematic analyses of the nostalgic discourse that these parties promote have not been forthcoming. This paper seeks to fill that lacuna by analysing how the Freedom Party of Austria, the Dutch Party for Freedom and the Sweden Democrats framed the historical fate of the welfare state in their electoral discourse between 2008 and 2018. It demonstrates that their commitment to welfare chauvinism finds expression in a common repertoire of “welfare nostalgia,” manifested in the different modes of “reaction,” “conservation” and “modernisation.” Giving substance to a widespread intuition about PRR nostalgia, the paper breaks ground for further research into nostalgic ideas about social policy.

A Selected Bibliography from Foreign Journals

1952 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-367
Author(s):  
J. Edward Gerald
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
International Federation ◽  
West Germany ◽  
La Paz ◽  
The World ◽  
The Welfare State

The first issues of the I. P. I. Report, published by the International Press Institute, appeared during this quarter. They furnish an unequalled report on communications around the world. L'Echo de la Presse became a weekly on April 11, realizing a seven-year dream of Editor Jacquemart. News developments included progress on reform of the British law of libel, evidence of the growth of advertising in Great Britain during the Socialist emphasis on the welfare state, and consideration of new basic press laws in West Germany, Pakistan and France. The chief editor of a leading Catholic daily in The Netherlands was dismissed. La Prensa of Buenos Aires reappeared as the painted darling of the Peron dictatorship and La Razon of La Paz appeared dead of intimidation by Estenssoro's revolutionary gangs. A leading Communist editor went to jail in France as part of the government's gesture of warning against armed agitation. A new international federation of journalists, the West's answer to the Communist IOJ, elected a famed British labor leader as president.

Mass Politics in a Post-Crisis World

2020 ◽  
pp. 184-200
Author(s):  
Timothy Hellwig ◽  
Yesola Kweon ◽  
Jack Vowles
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Mass Politics ◽  
Electoral Change ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter summarizes our main arguments in light of the evidence. Implications of this book for the study of the welfare state and for electoral change are discussed. We extend our analyses to consider whether and how elite actions and cues link crisis periods to attitudes towards how democracy works. We conclude noting that inasmuch as ‘crisis times’ interrupt ‘normal times’, the lessons from our book should speak to mass politics in representative democracies for decades to come.

Why the welfare state matters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Powell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Obligation ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intellectual Challenge ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter explores the ideal of the welfare state with particular reference to Ireland and why it matters to us as European citizens. It discusses the origins of the welfare state, the relationship between welfare and citizenship, Ireland's position within welfare state frameworks, Irish social policy, and the crisis of legitimacy in the welfare state. It is argued that in the reconstructed reality of postmodern society, the challenge of social policy is to respond reflexively to changing needs and demands. The challenge to a universalist welfare state based on social obligation, common citizenship and human rights is manifest. If populism is to be the shape of things to come, where does that leave the welfare state? Is it possible to have a welfare state in a polarised and fragmented social order? This is the great social, political and intellectual challenge of postmodernity.

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