What Future for Social Security?

Debates and Reforms in National and Cross-National Perspective

By: Jochen Clasen

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Hardcover | 25 July 2001

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It is widely assumed today that the `welfare state' is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social security benefits is being subjected in most developed countries. In this book fifteen authorities from nine different countries andndash; the UK, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and the US andndash; investigate to what extent this assumption is warranted.

The papers were originally presented at a Conference on `The Future of Social Security' held at the University of Stirling in June 2000. Taking into account developments and initiatives at every administrative level from sub-national employment agencies to the OECD and the World Bank, they draw on both data and theories in a broad spectrum of related disciplines, including political science, economics, sociology, and law. Detailed materials allow the reader to formulate well-defined responses to such crucial questions as: Is there indeed waning public support for social security? Is the `demographic time bomb' of an ageing population as serious a problem as we are often led to believe? How seriously do supranational reform proposals tend to underestimate cross-national differences? To what degree is `activation policy' merely rhetorical? To what extent do employment office staff reformulate and redefine policies `on the ground' to accommodate specific case-by-case realities? Specific criteria for entitlement (e.g., disability) and such central issues as `gendered' assumptions, access to benefit programmes, and the involvement of trade unions are examined in a variety of contexts. As an authoritative assessment of the current state of social security reform - its critical issues, its direction, and its potential impacts andndash; What Future for Social Security? is an incomparable work, and is sure to be of great value to all professionals and officials concerned with social programmes at any government level.

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Welfare & Benefit Systems

List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Social Security in the new Millennium	p. 1
Rising Tides and Rusty Boats: economic position of the poor in 1985-1995	p. 15
Popular Support for Social Security. A sociological perspective	p. 33
Non-Discriminating Social Policy? Policy scenarios for meeting needs without categorisation	p. 53
Equality, Employment, and State Social Policies: a gendered perspective	p. 69
Europeanisation and Decentralisation of Welfare 'Safety Nets'	p. 87
Beyond Retrenchment: four problems is current welfare state research and one suggestion how to overcome them	p. 105
Change without Challenge? Welfare states, social construction of challenge and dynamics of path dependency	p. 121
Public Expenditure and Population Ageing: why families of nations are different	p. 141
Ageing and Public Pension Reforms in Western Europe and North America: patterns and politics	p. 157
The Redistributional Impact of a World Bank 'Pension Regime'	p. 179
Activating Welfare States. How social policies can promote employment	p. 197
Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity: European and American approaches from a British perspective	p. 211
Activating the Unemployed: the street-level implementation of UK policy	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 251
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