Search results for ‘Subject term:"social policy"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 10 of 19
Impact of Europeanization on Nordic alcohol control policies: a discussion of processes and national differences
- Author:
- UGLAND Trygve
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 10(1), February 2000, pp.58-67.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The impact of Europeanisation on Nordic alcohol control policies can occur through three main processes: 'positive activist reform', 'negative reform', and 'reform by indirect pressure'. In this article the significance of each of these processes has been considered and based on this discussion, it emerges that the effects have mainly occurred through negative reforms of indirect pressure.
Social policy in harsh times. Social security development in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s
- Author:
- NORDLUND A.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(1), January 2000, pp.31-42.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
For the past two decades, Nordic social policy has been subject to a range of serious challenges, among which economic problems and critiques, but neo-classical economists have been most prominent. This article raised the question whether Nordic social policy has significantly changed during this period. Concludes that the four welfare states of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have shown resilience considering the challenges they have been exposed to since the early 1980s.
Comparative welfare systems: the Scandinavian model in a period of change
- Editor:
- GREVE Bent
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 272p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Looks at changes in the welfare state in Scandinavia. Contains sections on: the Scandinavian model and the variety of welfare models; economic aspects of the welfare system; and welfare policy and administrative analysis. Also includes a chapter presenting a comparative analysis of welfare systems in Eastern Europe.
Nordic disability policies in a changing Europe: is there still a distinct Nordic model?
- Author:
- HVINDEN Bjorn
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 38(2), April 2004, pp.170-189.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Nordic welfare states have usually been characterized by encompassing or institutional systems of public provisions, both in general and for people with impairment in particular. Provisions have been perceived as being more universalistic in coverage, more generous in terms of benefit levels and availability of services, and with a greater emphasis on prevention and coordination, than provisions in other Western countries. Yet the success of the Nordic system of disability protection has recently been questioned on various grounds. These criticisms have resulted in a number of reforms recently introduced or about to be implemented. This reorientation is likely to reduce the prominence of some characteristics of the Nordic model in this particular area. Under the ongoing influence of European integration, the authors expect to see a shift of emphasis away from redistributive provisions especially income transfers, to regulative provisions, meant to ensure accessibility and combat discrimination.
The path-dependency of an idea: why Scandinavian welfare states remain distinct
- Author:
- COX Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 38(2), April 2004, pp.204-219.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examining reforms that have taken place in the 1990s, this article explores the hypothesis that the most distinctive characteristic of the Scandinavian model today is the “stickiness” of its reputation, rather than the institutions and policies that make up the model. Borrowing the concept of path-dependency from institutional analysis, the article argues that because there is a strong commitment to the idea of a Scandinavian model, there is a tendency to expand conceptions of the model so that policy changes appear to be consistent with it.
The politics of care for elderly people in Scandinavia
- Author:
- JAKOBSSON Gunborg
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 1(1), March 1998, pp.87-93.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes the issues currently impacting on the social welfare system in Scandinavia, especially as they affect older people.
Mothers, markets and the state: a Scandinavian 'model'
- Author:
- LEIRA Arnlaug
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 22(3), July 1993, pp.329-347.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Considers whether the similarity in provision of child care for working mothers in Denmark, Norway and Sweden amounts to a Scandinavian 'model'.
Social policy in challenging times: economic crisis and welfare systems
- Editors:
- FARNSWORTH Kevin, IRVING Zoe, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 352p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The editors believe that the current economic crisis looks set to redefine social policy debate throughout the world but they note that is effects are not uniform across nations. This book brings together contributions analysing the impact of the 2008-9 financial crisis on key welfare systems to provide an insight into the challenges currently facing social policy across the globe. The key lesson to emerge from this book is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by national context. Chapters include: varieties of crisis; the economic crisis and paradigm change; from financial crisis to fiscal crisis; credit crunch, inequality and social policy; global social policy responses to the economic crisis; poverty, the crisis and social policy responses in developing countries; South Korea after the 1997 economic crisis: a 'paradigm shift'?; China's response to crisis: what role for social policy?; re-evaluating the German social model in light of the global recession; Ireland and the impact of the economic crisis: upholding the dominant policy paradigm; Iceland, kreppan and alternative social policy futures; experiences from two financial crises in the Nordic welfare states: 1990-93 and 2008-10 compared; social policy and the recent economic crisis and in Canada and the United States; from economic crisis to a new age of austerity: the UK.
European gender regimes and policies: comparative perspectives
- Author:
- SUMER Sevil
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 154p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book describes how comprehensive gender equality remains an unfulfilled goal in many European countries, despite important developments and challenges to the traditional gendered division of labour. The book reviews recent progress in gender policies in different countries within the European Union, together with recent empirical data on gender relations in the labour market and within families. The book adopts an international and interdisciplinary perspective through its use of qualitative and quantitative data, and a comprehensive theoretical framework. Particular focus is placed on the latest developments in the field of gender equality in different Scandinavian countries – countries which are customarily seen as forerunners in the area, and the book concludes with an in-depth discussion on the possibility of converging alternate gender policy regimes within Europe. Main chapters include: comparing gender regimes: a theoretical framework; the Scandinavian gender regime: myth or reality?; gender policies in the European Union; work-family reconciliation in practice; and the concluding discussion: towards a European gender regime?
The new handbook of children's rights: comparative policy and practice
- Editor:
- FRANKLIN Bob
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 447p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides up to date information on: the debate concerning children's rights and developments in rights provision over the last twenty years; the impact of recent British legislation on children's rights in key areas such as education, social welfare, and criminal justice; the key provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Human Rights Act 1998; recent policy proposals and initiatives in the British setting intended to establish and promote rights for children and young people; the rights claims of particular groups of young people, for example children who are carers or disabled children; citizen's claims for particular rights such as the right to space, to sex education and to citizenship; the ways in which the voices of children and young people are or might be articulated more clearly in policy debates and other arenas; and issues and developments in Australia, Belgium, Scandinavia and China.