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Author: Patrick Emmenegger (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark) ,
Silja Häusermann (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Konstanz) ,
Bruno Palier (CNRS Research Professor, CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes, Paris) ,
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser (Professor, Professor, Comparative Social Policy and Politics, University of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 16.30cm
Weight: 0.743kg
ISBN: 9780199797899
ISBN 10: 0199797897
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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<br> This is a timely and significant contribution to current debates on the widening gap between insiders and outsiders in rich societies. Going beyond a structuralist view, this comparative study reveals the contentious politics as well as the dividing policies of employment deregulation and welfare retrenchment. Eminent experts map a variety of dualization patterns across continental European, Scandinavian, Anglophone, and Asian-Pacific welfare states. The book's essential message is that dualization is no necessity, but rather the result of divisive politics and dualist policies. -- Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Professor of Sociology, University of Mannheim<p><br> The broad, comfortable middle class that western democracies built up in the wake of WWII has contracted and William Beveridge's five giants of want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness are again looming large. Most observers point helplessly at economic and social globalization, but this comprehensive international compar
"""This is a timely and significant contribution to current debates on the widening gap between insiders and outsiders in rich societies. Going beyond a structuralist view, this comparative study reveals the contentious politics as well as the dividing policies of employment deregulation and welfare retrenchment. Eminent experts map a variety of dualization patterns across continental European, Scandinavian, Anglophone, and Asian-Pacific welfare states. The book's essential message is that dualization is no necessity, but rather the result of divisive politics and dualist policies."" -- Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Professor of Sociology, University of Mannheim ""The broad, comfortable middle class that western democracies built up in the wake of WWII has contracted and William Beveridge's five giants of want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness are again looming large. Most observers point helplessly at economic and social globalization, but this comprehensive international comparison of social and labor market policies reveals how the growth of inequalities is exacerbated, deterred, or contained by national politics. Here, for the first time, we can learn systematically which policies to avoid, and which may, in fact, keep the giants at bay."" -- Stephan Leibfried, Professor of Public Policy, University of Bremen ""This terrific volume brings together cutting-edge scholarship on a very important topic. Taken as a whole, the volume makes a compelling case that growing differentiation of insiders and outsiders represents a common trend in the advanced capitalist countries, with long-term consequences for politics and social cohesion. The authors emphasize social policy changes as a source of dualization and demonstrate that patterns of dualization vary across countries for fundamentally political reasons."" -- Jonas Pontusson, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Geneva"
Author Information
Patrick Emmenegger, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and its Centre for Welfare State Research. Silja Häusermann, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the University of Konstanz. Bruno Palier, PhD, is CNRS Research Professor at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes, Paris. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, PhD, is Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Politics at the Oxford Institute of Social Policy and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
