The Uses of Social Investment

Buch | Softcover

500 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-879049-5 (ISBN)

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This volume provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment.

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social investment. It surveys the emergence, diffusion, limits, merits, and politics of social investment as the welfare policy paradigm for the 21st century, seen through the lens of the life-course contingencies of the competitive knowledge economy and modern family-hood.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the volume revisits the intellectual roots and normative foundations of social investment, surveys the criticisms that have leveled against the social investment perspective in theory and policy practice, and presents empirical evidence of social investment progress together with novel research methodologies for assessing socioeconomic 'rates of return' on social investment. Given the progressive, admittedly uneven, diffusion of the social investment policy priorities across the globe, the volume seeks to address the pressing political question as to whether the social investment turn is able to withstand the fiscal austerity backlash that has re-emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

Anton Hemerijck is Professor of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence, and Centennial Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

PART 1: INTRODUCTION; PART 2: LIMITS TO SOCIAL INVESTMENT; PART 3: SOCIAL INVESTMENT ENDOWMENT AND EXTENSIONS; PART 4: SOCIAL INVESTMENT ASSESSMENT: CONCEPTUALIZATION AND METHODS; PART 5: COMPARATIVE SOCIAL INVESTMENT EXPERIENCE; PART 6: EU SOCIAL INVESTMENT ADVOCACY; PART 7: THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL INVESTMENT; PART 8: CONCLUSION

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2017
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 234 mm
Gewicht	756 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-19-879049-X / 019879049X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-879049-5 / 9780198790495
Zustand	Neuware