Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States

✍ Scribed by Ivan Harsløf, Rickard Ulmestig (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 311
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States....Pages 1-24
Changing Population Profiles and Social Risk Structures in the Nordic Countries....Pages 25-49
Welfare State Support of Lone Parents — Nordic Approaches to a Complex and Ambiguous Policy Issue....Pages 50-74
Working Time Policy Change and New Social Risks....Pages 75-91
The Growing Emphasis on Social Citizenship in Nordic Education: Inducing New Social Risks While Trying to Alleviate Them....Pages 92-112
Structural Unemployment as a New Social Risk in the Nordic Countries — A Critical Reassessment....Pages 113-139
Fighting Risks with Risks: Self-Employment and Social Protection in the Nordic Welfare States....Pages 140-164
Health Capital: New Health Risks and Personal Investments in the Body in the Context of Changing Nordic Welfare States....Pages 165-188
Ethnification of New Social Risks: Programmes for Preparing Newly Arrived Immigrants for (Working) Life in Sweden, Denmark and Norway....Pages 189-219
New Geographically Differentiated Configurations of Social Risks: Labour Market Policy Developments in Sweden and Finland....Pages 220-244
A Liberalistic Handling of New Social Risks — Danish Experiences from Three Decades of Social Policy Reforms....Pages 245-265
Discussion: The Take on New Social Risks in the Nordic Welfare States....Pages 266-281
Back Matter....Pages 282-295

✦ Subjects

Social Policy; Politics of the Welfare State; Political Sociology; Risk Management; Social Care; Comparative Politics

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