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This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging scenarios in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Leading experts on each of these regions examine the current structures of social protection, consider the causes of the current welfare state crisis and highlight evolving trends for welfare policy. Different welfare states are shown to manifest different forms of crisis. Among the symptoms of crisis, Welfare States in Transition suggests that the effect of popluation ageing is exaggerated, and an at least equally fundamental challenge lies in
Positive-Sum Solutions in a World of Trade-Offs?
Positive-Sum Solutions in a World of Trade-Offs?
One aim of this project was to identify future scenarios for the welfare state. Academics naturally shun futurology, which means that our work was concentrated on known facts and visible trends. The concluding chapter offers an opportunity to move beyond academic caution. Basically, I propose to revisit the major themes in this book in a more speculative vein, posing to myself the seemingly simple question: how do I now, after more than a year's work, understand the welfare state's problems and future? The answers I give to this question may be neither profound nor convincing, but they do suggest a less pessimistic scenario than when the project first began.
Three basic issues have occupied ...
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