The Dynamics of Welfare Markets

Clemence Ledoux is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nantes, France, and former Fellow of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany. Karen Shire is Chair of Comparative Sociology at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Franca van Hooren is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, and former Fellow of the Netherlands Insitute for Advanced Studies.

Part I: MAPPING THE DYNAMICS OF WELFARE MARKETS. - 1.  Introduction: From the Emergence to the Dynamics of Welfare Markets; Clémence Ledoux, Karen Shire, Franca van Hooren.- 2. Changing States, Changing Citizens, Changing Politics?; Jane Gingrich.- 3.The European Union and Multi-Level Contention Over Welfare Markets; Amandine Crespy. - Part 2: (RE)CONSTRUCTING WELFARE MARKETS. - 4. Welfare Markets and Home-Based Domestic/Care Services: Market Dynamics and Mechanisms in Two Different Institutional Contexts - Spain and Sweden; Zenia Hellgren and Barbara Hobson.- 5. The Failure of a Welfare Market: State-Subsidized Private Pensions between Economic Developments and Media Discourses; Frank Nullmeier.- 6. The Role of Evidence and Commissions in the Dynamics of German and Swedish Pension Markets; Stephan Köppe.- Part III: THE DYNAMICS ON THE USER SIDE.- 7. 'Disorientation' in a Capricious Welfare Market: The Case of the German Pension System; Ingo Bode and Ralph Lüth.- 8. Being Dependent and an Employer: The Realities of Private Individual Employment for Dependent Elderly People in France; Eve Meuret-Campfort.-  9. The Political Dynamics of Welfare Markets: The Emergence of Consumer Organisations in the Field of Social Policy; Florian Blank.- Part IV. THE DYNAMICS OF FIRMS AND EMPLOYERS.- 10. The Politics of Segmentation and De-Segmentation of the French Market for Private Retirement Accounts; Marek Naczik.- 11. The Development of Occupational Pension Markets in the European Union and Lithuania: Regulation and Challenges; Audrius Bitinas.- 12. Becoming an Organised Actor in a Welfare Market: Employers' Organisations in the French In-Home Domestic/Care Services Sector; Clémence Ledoux Rafael Encinas de Munagorri, Virginie Guiraudon.- Part V. THE DYNAMICS ON THE LABOUR SIDE.- 13. Informalisation of Work and Workers' Voice in Welfare Markets for In-Home Domestic/Care Service in Germany; Birgit Apitzsch and Karen Shire.- 14. Trade Unions and Welfare Markets: Comparing Dynamics in Three Domestic/Care Markets in the Netherlands; Franca van Hooren. - 15. Workers on Welfare Markets and the Appropriation of Their Rights: The Case of Mothers' Assistants in France since 1977; Marie Cartier.