Social Policy in Challenging Times: Economic Crisis and Welfare Systems

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Economic Crisis and Welfare Systems

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Edited by Kevin Farnsworth, University of York, Zoë Irving, University of York

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: September 2022
Print publication year:: 2011
Online ISBN:: 9781847428295
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781847428295

Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Sociology

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Bringing together a range of expert contributions, this book is the first to address the relationship between the economic crisis and social policy within an international context. The key lesson to emerge is that 'the crisis' is better understood as a variety of crises, each mediated by national context.

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Social Policy in Challenging Times

Economic Crisis and Welfare Systems

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of figures and tables
pp v-vi

Notes on contributors
pp vii-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

one - Varieties of crisis
pp 1-30

two - The economic crisis and paradigm change
pp 31-48

three - From financial crisis to fiscal crisis
pp 49-64

four - Credit crunch, inequality and social policy
pp 65-80

five - Global social policy responses to the economic crisis
pp 81-100

six - Poverty, the crisis and social policy responses developing countries in developing countries
pp 101-118

seven - South Korea after the 1997 economic crisis: a ‘paradigm shift’?
pp 119-138

eight - China's response to crisis: what role for social policy?
pp 139-158

nine - Tiptoeing through crisis? Re-evaluating the German social model in light of the global recession
pp 159-180

ten - Ireland and the impact of the economic crisis: upholding the dominant policy paradigm
pp 181-198

eleven - Waving not drowning: Iceland, kreppan and alternative social policy futures
pp 199-218

twelve - Experiences from two financial crises in the Nordic welfare states: 1990-93 and 2008-10 compared
pp 219-230

thirteen - Social policy and the recent economic crisis in Canada and the United States
pp 231-250

fourteen - From economic crisis to a new age of austerity: the UK
pp 251-270

fifteen - Responding to the challenges: some concluding remarks on welfare futures in changed circumstances
pp 271-278

Bibliography
pp 279-322

Index
pp 323-335

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