Recasting European Welfare States

This volume presents research on the recasting of European welfare states from the European Forum on Welfare at the European University Institute in Florence. The chapters include both comparative analyses of topical issues, and in-depth studies of changes in the major European countries. Recasting European welfare states - an introduction, Maurizio Ferrera, Martin Rhodes; interests and choice in the not quite so new politics of welfare, Fiona Ross; reforming health care in Europe, Richard Freeman, Michael Moran; timing and the development of social care services in Europe, Valeria Fargion; motives, means and opportunities - reforming unemployment compensation in the 1990s, Jochen Clasen; defrosting the French welfare state, Bruno Palier; the employment crisis of the German welfare state, Philip Manow, Eric Seils; desperately seeking a solution - social democracy, Thatcherism and the third way in British welfare, Martin Rhodes; reforms guided by consensus -the welfare state in the Italian transition, Maurizio Ferreram Elisabetta Gualmini; the Scandinavian welfare state in the 1990s - challenges but viable, stein Kuhnle; change and immobility - three decades of policy adjustment in the Netherlands and Belgium, Anton Hemerijck, Jelle Visser; building a sustainable welfare state, Maurizio Ferrera, Martin Rhodes.