Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

Bent Greve is Professor of Welfare State Analysis in the Department of Society and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has published widely on different topics surrounding the welfare state, including technology and the labour market, happiness and social policy, and labour market policy. He is also a member of several boards and committees in Denmark and internationally.

Introduction
Bent Greve

Part I: Key Concepts






What is welfare and public welfare
Bent Greve




What is a welfare state?
Johanna Kuhlmann




Fiscal Welfare
Adrian Sinfield




Occupational Welfare
Kevin Farnsworth




Prevention
Annelies Debels, Ine Van Hoyweghen




Poverty
Peter Saunders




Benefits in Kind and in Cash
Manos Matsaganis




Gender Issues in Welfare States
Sheila Shaver




Welfare States and the Life Course
Mara Yerkes and Bram Peper




Well-being and the Welfare State
Daniel Sage

Part II: Typologies and Methods




Welfare Typologies
Kees van Kerbergen




Nordic Welfare States
Jon Kvist, Olli Kangas




Central European Welfare States
Daniel Clegg




Central and Eastern Europe
Steven Saxonberg and Tomas Sirovatka




Southern Europe
Maria Petmesidou




Liberal Welfare States
Huch Bochel




Third Way
Martin Powell




Welfare States in North America: Social Citizenship in the United States, Canada and Mexico
Robert Henry Cox




Welfare State Changes in China since 1949
Bingqin Li




India as a Post-Colonial Welfare State
Sony Pelissery and T. V. S. Sasidhar




Inequality, Social Spending and the State in Latin America
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock




The Middle-East
Rana Jawad and John Gal




States of Health: Welfare Regimes, Health and Health Care
Clare Bambra, Nadine Reibling and Courtney McNamara




How to Analyze Welfare States and Their Development?
Barbara Vis




How Ideas Impact Social Policy
Daniel Beland




Drivers for Change
Virginie Guiraudon and Claude Martin




Different Worlds of Welfare Regimes: Applying the Ideal-Typical Method
Christian Aspalter




Real-typical and Ideal-Typical Methods in Comparative Social Policy
Christian Aspalter




Fiscal Crisis, Financial Crisis and the Fragile Welfare State
Kevin Farnsworth and Zoe Irving




Globalisation and the Welfare States
Patrick Diamond

Part III: Central Policy Areas




Social Security
Frans Pennings




Active Labour Market Policies
Madelene Nordlund and Bent Greve




Housing Policy, the Welfare State and Social Inequality
Gregg M. Olsen




Homelessness and Social Policy
Gregg M. Olsen and Lars Benjaminsen




Health Care
Claus Wendt




Old Age and Pension
Karl Hinrichs




Disability
Bjørn Hvinden




Family Policies
Chiara Saraceno




Risk and the management of crime
David Denney




Financing the Welfare State and The Politics of Taxation
Nathalie Morel and Joakim Palme




Social OMC
Caroline de La Porte




Evaluation, Evidence
Ian Greener




Long-Term Care
Bent Greve




The Welfare State and International Migration: The European Challenge
Grete Brochmann and Jon Erik Dølvik

Part IV: Future




Future of the welfare state?

Bent Greve