Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems (Paperback, 2 ed)

Part 1: Introduction 1. Reform Pathways of European Welfare Systems: Analysing Change and Continuity in a Broadened Geographical and Temporal PerspectiveJohanna Kuhlmann and Sonja BlumPart 2: Country Studies 2. Austrification in Welfare System Change? An Analysis of Welfare System Development in Austria between 1998 and 2018 August Osterle and Karin Heitzmann 3. Belgium’s Welfare System: Still Lagging After All These YearsIve Marx and Lien Van Cant4. The Bulgarian Welfare System: Reforms and Their Effects on Inequalities and Vulnerable Groups Between 1997 and 2018Rumiana Stoilova and Veneta Krasteva5. The Restructuring of the Cypriot Welfare System: Will the New Provision System Prove to be a Success?Odysseas Christou and Christina Ioannou 6. Hybridisation and Diversification Welfare System Developments Between 1993 and 2018 in the Czech RepublicToma? Sirovatka and Vojtech Ripka 7. The German Welfare System: The Calm After the StormFlorian Blank8. Denmark ? A Universal Welfare System with Restricted AusterityBent Greve9. The Welfare System in Estonia: Between Liberalism and SolidarityMare Ainsaar, Ave Roots, and Avo Trumm 10. The Spanish Welfare System: Towards a New Social and Territorial Pact?Paloma de Villota and Susana Vazquez-Cupeiro 11. Still Holding Its Breath: The Finnish Welfare System under ReformJuho Saari and Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen12. The Recalibration of the French Welfare SystemPatrick Hassenteufel and Bruno Palier13. ‘Liberalising’ Social Protection amid Austerity in GreeceStefanos Papanastasiou and Christos Papatheodorou14. The Croatian Welfare System: A Lack of Coherent Policy Paradigm Followed by Inconsistent Policy Reforms? Ivana Dobrotic15. Pathway to a Punitive Workfare System: HungaryKatalin Tausz16. The Welfare System in Ireland Over the Last 20 YearsMary Daly17. The Italian Welfare System: An Incomplete Transition?Igor Guardiancich and David Natali18. The Lithuanian Welfare System Over the Last20 Years of Democratic Transition: Achievements, Challenges and Future ProspectsJolanta Aidukaite, Julija Moskvina, and Daiva Skuciene19. Changes in Luxembourg’s Welfare System (1998?2018): Coalition Governments and Europeanisation as Major Driving ForcesNicole Kerschen 20. Social Policy Reforms in Latvia: Shift Towards Individual Responsibility of WelfareFeliciana Rajevska and Olga Rajevska21. The Maltese Welfare System: Hybrid Wine in Rightist Bottles? With Two-Sided Labels?Charles Pace22. The Dutch Participatory State: Shift from a Welfare System of Collective Solidarity Towards Individual Responsibility in a Participatory SocietyMinna van Gerven23. Politics of Welfare: The Polish Welfare System in the First Decades of the 21st CenturyRenata Siemienska and Anna Domaradzka24. The Portuguese Welfare System: A Late European Welfare System under Permanent StressJose Antonio Pereirinha and Maria Clara Murteira25. The Romanian Welfare System: From the Shadow of Equality to the Dazzle of DualisationCristina Ra¿, Livia Popescu, and Valentina Ivan26. The Swedish Welfare System: The Neoliberal Turn and Most Recent Struggles Over Decentralised Top-down Re-regulationSven E.O. Hort, Lisa Kings, and Zhanna Kravchenko27. Restructuring the Slovenian Welfare System: Between Economic Pressures and Future ChallengeMa?a Filipovic Hrast and Tatjana Rakar28. The Slovak Welfare System: From Turbulent Times to StabilityOndrej Botek29. The United Kingdom: New Devolved Welfare Systems in BritainChristopher DeemingPart 3: EU Social Policy and Comparative Perspectives 30. European Union Social Policy: Facing Deepening Economic Integration and Demand for a More Social Europe With Continuity and CautiousnessMiriam Hartlapp31. The Development of Welfare State Spending in the EU, 1995?2015: A Quantitative Comparative AnalysisKarsten Mause32. Landscapes in Motion: Welfare System Reform in 28 European Countries 1998?2018Sonja Blum and Johanna Kuhlmann