Social Policy in Changing European Societies

Edited by Kenneth Nelson, Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), University of Oxford, UK and Rense Nieuwenhuis, Associate Professor of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Sweden and Mara A. Yerkes, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Contents:

Preface xvi
1 Social policy research in changing European societies 1
Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, and Mara A. Yerkes

PART I KEY THEMES IN SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH
2 Care and the analysis of welfare states 20
Mary Daly and Margarita León
3 Family policy research in Europe 34
Wim Van Lancker and Hannah Zagel
4 Comparative research on health and health care 50
Claus Wendt
5 Long-term developments in housing policy and research 66
Caroline Dewilde and Marietta Haffner
6 Studying the politics of pension reforms and their social
consequences 85
Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Katja Möhring
7 Poverty, social policy and the welfare state: a research agenda 101
Bea Cantillon
8 Research on active social policy 120
Giuliano Bonoli

PART II CROSS-CUTTING RESEARCH THEMES
9 Researching social Europe on the move 136
Caroline De la Porte and Ilaria Madama
10 The evolution of social policy research in Central and
Eastern Europe 154
Jolanta Aidukaite and Jekaterina Navicke
11 Twenty years of social policy research on gender 171
Trudie Knijn
12 European labour markets and social policy: recent research
and future directions 187
Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg
13 Recent advances in understanding welfare attitudes in Europe 202
Wim van Oorschot, Tijs Laenen, Femke Roosma, and Bart Meuleman
14 Methodologies for comparative social policy analysis 218
Emanuele Ferragina and Christopher Deeming

PART III SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH CHALLENGES
15 Social policy research and climate change 236
Bjørn Hvinden and Mi Ah Schoyen
16 Studying social policy in the digital age 251
Minna van Gerven
17 Migrants and social policy: shifting research agendas 265
Karen N. Breidahl, Troels Fage Hedegaard, and Verena Seibel
18 Social policy research in times of crisis 279
Bent Greve and Thomas Paster
19 Where to from here? Social policy research in future
European societies 294
Mara A. Yerkes, Kenneth Nelson and Rense Nieuwenhuis

Index 303