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The Welfare State and Human Well-Being Around the World: A Cross-National Analysis
Does the welfare state affect human well-being outside the developed OECD world? For decades scholars have assessed the impact of the welfare state...
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Poverty and the Rise and Fall of the Welfare State in Britain, 1900 to the Present
Poverty in the UK has recently risen to levels and created conditions not seen since c.1900. Then, the poverty revealed in major surveys by Booth and...
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Crafting Social Integration? Welfare State and Volunteering Across Social Groups and Policy Areas in 23 European Countries
The beneficial role of voluntary work for social integration makes it an important aspect of social cohesion. Thus, there is broad interest in...
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Medicine, Psychology, and the Welfare State
How does a welfare state develop into a biopsychosocial welfare state? Ariaans, Bleckmann, and Reibling ask this question and provide a much-needed...
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Overlap** Inequalities in the Welfare State Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Framework
The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlap** inequalities within the...
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The Austrian Welfare State: A Halfway House
The Austrian welfare state is stable and its basic structure is not in question. Its social policy is influenced by the neoliberal mainstream in...
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Premises: Perspectives on the Welfare State
This chapter provides a brief overview of influential debates within welfare state research. It then discusses selected functions of the welfare...
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Probabilistic justice against status defense: inequality, uncertainty, and the future of the welfare state
The postwar welfare state provides social insurance against economic, health, and related risks in an uncertain world. Because everyone can envision...
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Overlap** Inequalities in the Welfare State. An Introduction
Since the 1980s, intersectionality has received significant recognition as a feminist framework with its theoretical, methodological, and political...
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Population anxieties in constituting Nordic welfare state futures: affective biopolitics in the age of environmental crises
Declining fertility rates across world have generated deep concern among different stakeholders. In 2019, Finland’s fertility rate was at an...
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COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 282 million cases and almost 5.5 million deaths (WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard, 2022)....
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Conjunctures of the Welfare State Crisis: The Cracks Are Deepening
In this section, the debates that have been smouldering for several decades and have flared up in waves on the tense relationship between the...
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Towards a Post-crisis Welfare State in Central and Southeast Europe: Challenges and Perspectives
In the context of concurrent crises, the concluding chapter summarises the challenges that confront social policies and social work in Central and...
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Welfare Chauvinism: Are Immigrants Granted Access to Welfare State Benefits?
To understand the determinants and consequences of welfare chauvinism, researchers should consider four aspects: First, people apply different...
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The Biopsychosocial Welfare State: A New Perspective on Social Policy
How can we understand the biopsychosocial welfare state? What empirical indications are there for the increasing influence of medicine and psychology...
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The Welfare State as an Independent Variable: Debates, Pitfalls, Potentials
This chapter examines the first main research question: how comparable are the results that emerge from different approaches to operationalising the...
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Irregular Migrants’ Precarious Access to Health Care in the Norwegian Welfare State
This chapter relies on an intersectional approach to explore the precariousness of irregular migrants and their access to health care in the welfare...
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Conclusion and Outlook: Universalist Welfare State as an Emancipatory Guiding Model
Fundamental policy changes are the exception rather than the rule in the German welfare state. Several “currents” have to come together in order to...
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The Intersectional Multilevel Approach: Linking Subject, Discourse, and Social Structure in Welfare State Research
The intersectional multilevel approach is a versatile instrument for subject-centered empirical social research within the framework of an...
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The Assemblage and Dismantling of Access Barriers in Administrative Bureaucracies: Constructing the Problem of Diversity in the German Welfare State
The article extends the literature on the construction of “diversity management” by personnel managers in corporate America. Such research has...
