The Great Recession and Welfare State Reform: Is Retrenchment Really the Only Game Left in Town?

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 883-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kees van Kersbergen ◽  
Barbara Vis ◽  
Anton Hemerijck
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
State Reform ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Welfare State Reform

Employment Policy in Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 577-592
Author(s):  
Mariely López-Santana
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Employment Policies ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Territorial Organization

This chapter provides an overview of the emergence, consolidation, recalibration, and liberalization of employment policies in Spain. By identifying five developmental periods, it reviews transformations in the nature and regulation of labour market policies from the early 1900s to the mid-2010s. In addition, it explores changes in the territorial organization and governance of labour-market policies with a focus on decentralization, (re-) centralization, and delegation reforms. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the implications of the Great Recession on Spanish labour market policies and structures, including its dualized labour market. All in all, the chapter sheds much light on the nature and changes of the Spanish welfare state since the early twentieth century.

France at a Crossroads

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Leruth
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Generous Welfare ◽  
The Welfare State

France has established itself as one of the most ‘generous’ welfare states in the world. The Great Recession of 2007–8 confronted French social policy with escalating unemployment and deepening inequalities. Combined with major pension reforms, these led to strong levels of dissatisfaction across the country, exacerbated by tensions over immigration, Euroscepticism, and internal security problems. This chapter examines how these issues developed in political context and uses material from attitude surveys to analyse existing and future challenges for the welfare state in France. It assesses recent reforms: governments of right and left offered contrasting programmes but failed to win public trust. France now stands at a cross-roads, facing a strong presidential challenge from the anti-immigrant, anti-EU right.

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