Beyond Welfare State Models: Transnational Historical Perspectives on Social Policy

Beyond Welfare State Models: Transnational Historical Perspectives on Social Policy
ISBN-10
1849809607
ISBN-13
9781849809603
Category
Political Science
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Authors
Klaus Petersen, Pauli Kettunen

Description

Welfare state models have for decades been the gold standard of welfare state research. Beyond Welfare State Models escapes the straightjacket of conventional welfare state models and challenges the existing literature in two ways. Firstly the contributors argue that the standard typologies have omitted important aspects of welfare state development. Secondly, the work develops and underlines the importance of a more fluid transnational conceptualisation. As this book shows, welfare states are not created in national isolation but are heavily influenced by transnational economic, political and cultural interdependencies. The authors illustrate these important points of criticism with their studies on the transnational history of social policy, religion and the welfare state, Nordic cooperation within the fields of social policy and marriage law, and the transnational contexts of national family policies. This fascinating work contributes to the understanding of the current changes of welfare states by discussing the relationship between globalized capitalism and social political regulations and by arguing that transnational transformations importantly take place within and between nation states.

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