European Welfare States: Comparative Perspectives by M. Cousins and Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe by P. Taylor-Gooby

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-326
Author(s):  
Robert Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
State Reform ◽  
Welfare State Reform ◽  
European Welfare States

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.

Allochthons, Colonizers, and Scroungers: Exclusionary Populism in Belgium

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bambi Ceuppens
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Democratic Tradition ◽  
Western European ◽  
Democratic Parties ◽  
European Welfare States ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract:This article analyzes the growth of autochthony in Belgium as an example of the increasing popularity of autochthony discourses in Western Europe. Autochthony discourses, which try to reserve the benefits of the welfare state to those who are said to really belong, tend to thrive in prosperous Western European welfare states with a strong Social-Democratic tradition that refuse to accept that they have become immigrant countries. In federalized Belgium, however, autochthony has a much stronger appeal in Flanders, which historically was dominated by Christian-Democratic parties, than in Wallonia, which remains a Social-Democratic bulwark. Analyzing Western European autochthony in terms of welfare chauvinism helps explain the ways in which prosperous Flemings, unlike impoverished Walloons, can afford to buy into the neoliberal rhetoric of choice and thus create themselves as autochthons.

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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