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The crisis imperative : crisis rhetoric and welfare state reform in Belgium and the Netherlands in the early 1990s /

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Discusses two distinct approaches to welfare state reform in two European Union countries faced with mounting costs of 'welfare without work'

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuipers, Sanneke
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2006]
Series:Changing welfare states.
Subjects:
Public welfare > Belgium.
Public welfare > Netherlands.
Aide sociale > Belgique.
Aide sociale > Pays-Bas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Society and social sciences.
Politics and government.
Public welfare.
Belgium.
Netherlands.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Crisis Imperative
  • Crisis and Change
  • Comparing Social Security Crises: Design and Method
  • "Nothing as Permanent as a Temporary Arrangement": Belgian Policy Making on Unemployment Benefits
  • Global Pacts and Crisis Plans
  • The Sticky State and the Dutch Disease
  • Crisis Narratives and Sweeping Reforms
  • The Politics of Crisis Construction.