Welfare States in Transition -

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Résumé :
Foreword - Dharam Ghai
After the Golden Age? Welfare State Dilemmas in a Global Economy - G[sl]osta Esping-Andersen
PART ONE: DECLINE OR RENEWAL IN THE ADVANCED WELFARE STATES?
The Scandinavian Welfare States - John D Stephens
Achievements, Crisis and Prospects
Welfare States without Work - G[sl]osta Esping-Andersen
The Impasse of Labour Shedding and Familialism in Continental European Social Policy
Needs-Based Strategies of Social Protection in Australia and New Zealand - Francis G Castles
When Markets Fail - John Myles
Social Welfare in Canada and the United States
PART TWO: EMERGING NEW WELFARE STATES?
Options for Social Policy in Latin America - Evelyne Huber
Neoliberal versus Social Democratic Models
The East Asian Welfare States - Roger Goodman and Ito Peng
Peripatetic Learning, Adaptive Change and Nation-Building
Social Protection in Central and Eastern Europe - Guy Standing
A Tale of Slipping Anchors and Torn Safety Nets
CONCLUSION
Positive-Sum Solutions in a World of Trade-Offs? - G[sl]osta Esping-Andersen
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Biographie:
Foreword - Dharam Ghai
After the Golden Age? Welfare State Dilemmas in a Global Economy - G[sl]osta Esping-Andersen
PART ONE: DECLINE OR RENEWAL IN THE ADVANCED WELFARE STATES?
The Scandinavian Welfare States - John D Stephens
Achievements, Crisis and Prospects
Welfare States without Work - G[sl]osta Esping-Andersen
The Impasse of Labour Shedding and Familialism in Continental European Social Policy
Needs-Based Strategies of Social Protection in Australia and New Zealand - Francis G Castles
When Markets Fail - John Myles
Social Welfare in Canada and the United States
PART TWO: EMERGING NEW WELFARE STATES?
Options for Social Policy in Latin America - Evelyne Huber
Neoliberal versus Social Democratic Models
The East Asian Welfare States - Roger Goodman and Ito Peng
Peripatetic Learning, Adaptive Change and Nation-Building
Social Protection in Central and Eastern Europe - Guy Standing
A Tale of Slipping Anchors and Torn Safety Nets
CONCLUSION
Positive-Sum Solutions in a World of Trade-Offs? - G[sl]osta Esping-Andersen
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Sommaire:
`An impressive editorial feat which attests to the potential for well-structured and consistently integrated comparative social analysis providing, not only a cogent evaluation of the ironies of current policy developments, but also asserting that economic and political configurations may well ensure that welfare states in transition could retain the most positive and popularly valued elements of their aquis' - British Journal of Sociology...