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Cover Towards Sustainable Welfare States in Europe
Towards Sustainable Welfare States in Europe
Social Policy and Climate Change
Edited by
Mi Schoyen
,
Bjørn Hvinden
, and
Merethe Dotterud Leiren

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This seminal book addresses the critical and urgent question of ‘what makes welfare states sustainable?’ in the era of climate change. Expert authors challenge traditional perspectives on questions of sustainability which have focused on population ageing, global economic turbulence and on containing current and future public social spending.

Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
06 Sep 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104633
Cover Social Policy in Changing European Societies
Social Policy in Changing European Societies
Research Agendas for the 21st Century
Edited by
Kenneth Nelson
,
Rense Nieuwenhuis
, and
Mara Yerkes

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book provides a cutting-edge, in-depth account of social policy research today, how we got here, and where future research should be headed. It defines the core research agenda for the future covering multiple social policy fields, including care, family, health, and housing policy as well as gender equality, labour market policy, and welfare attitudes.

Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
15 Jul 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201710
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover Handbook on Social Protection Systems
Handbook on Social Protection Systems
Edited by
Esther Schüring
and
Markus Loewe
This exciting and innovative Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive and globally relevant overview of the instruments, actors and design features of social protection systems, as well as their application and impacts in practice. It is the first book that centres around system building globally, a theme that has gained political importance yet has received relatively little attention in academia.
Open access
Handbook
Published:
10 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109119
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Justice and Vulnerability in Europe
Justice and Vulnerability in Europe
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Edited by
Trudie Knijn
and
Dorota Lepianka
Justice and Vulnerability in Europe contributes to the understanding of justice in Europe from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. It shows that Europe is falling short of its ideals and justice-related ambitions by repeatedly failing its most vulnerable populations.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
20 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108488
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe
Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe
Civic Engagement and Public Discourse in Times of Crises
Edited by
Christian Lahusen
Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe systematically dissects the manifestations of solidarity buried beneath the official policies and measures of public authority in Europe. In this exciting and innovative book, contributors offer comprehensive and original data and highlight the detrimental factors that tend to inhibit or annihilate solidarity, and those that are beneficial for the nurturing of solidarity.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
02 Mar 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909500
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Negotiating Early Job Insecurity
Negotiating Early Job Insecurity
Well-being, Scarring and Resilience of European Youth
Edited by
Bjørn Hvinden
,
Jacqueline O’Reilly
,
Mi A. Schoyen
, and
Christer Hyggen
Offering new knowledge and insights into European job markets, this book explores how young men and women experience job insecurity. By combining analysis of original data collected through a variety of innovative methods, it compares the trajectories of early job insecurity in nine European countries. Focusing on the ways in which young adults deal with this by actively increasing their chances of getting a job through a variety of methods, as the book shows how governmental policies can be altered to reduce early job insecurity.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
22 Feb 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118798
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe
Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe
Problems, Risk Factors and Policies
Edited by
Bjørn Hvinden
,
Christer Hyggen
,
Mi A. Schoyen
, and
Tomáš Sirovátka
Providing original insights into the factors causing early job insecurity in European countries, this book examines its short- and long-term consequences. It assesses public policies seeking to diminish the risks to young people facing prolonged job insecurity and reduce the severity of these impacts. Based on the findings of a major study across nine European countries, this book examines the diverse strategies that countries across the continent use to help young people overcome employment barriers.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
22 Feb 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118897
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Social Services Disrupted
Social Services Disrupted
Changes, Challenges and Policy Implications for Europe in Times of Austerity
Edited by
Flavia Martinelli
,
Anneli Anttonen
, and
Margitta Mätzke
This book revives the discussion on public social services and their redesign, with a focus on services relating to care and the social inclusion of vulnerable groups, providing rich information on the changes that occurred in the organisation and supply of public social services over the last thirty years in different European places and service fields. Despite the persisting variety in social service models, three shared trends emerge: public sector disengagement, ‘vertical re-scaling’ of authority and ‘horizontal re-mix’ in the supply system. The consequences of such changes are evaluated from different perspectives – governance, social and territorial cohesion, labour market, gender – and are eventually deemed ‘disruptive’ in both economic and social terms. The policy implications of the restructuring are also explored. This title will be Open Access on Elgaronline.com.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
24 Nov 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786432117
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2017
Cover Growing the Productivity of Government Services
Growing the Productivity of Government Services
Patrick Dunleavy
and
Leandro Carrera

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Productivity is essentially the ratio of an organization’s outputs divided by its inputs. For many years it was treated as always being static in government agencies. In fact productivity in government services should be rising rapidly as a result of digital changes and new management approaches, and it has done so in some agencies. However, Dunleavy and Carrera show for the first time how complex are the factors affecting productivity growth in government organizations – especially management practices, use of IT, organizational culture, strategic mis-decisions and political and policy churn.

Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
31 Jan 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857934994