The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume I

Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy

Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

552 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-758524-5 (ISBN)

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Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating, mobilizing, and preserving human skills and capabilities. Yet, there is massive variance in the development of social investment strategies.

The World Politics of Social Investment: Welfare States in the 21st Century is the first of two volumes of the World Politics of Social Investment (WOPSI) project, which systematically maps and explains different welfare reform strategies in democratic countries around the world. This volume develops a theory on the political and socio-economic conditions for the development of social investment policies around the globe, and studies the impact of the main explanatory factors on the empirical variety of social investment reforms (and non-social investment reforms). It also proposes a new typology of different welfare reform strategies, distinguishing nine types of social investment strategies depending on their functions (creating, mobilizing and preserving human skill and capabilities) and their distributive profiles (inclusive, stratified or targeted), and three types of non-social investment welfare strategies (market liberalism, social protectionism and basic income). The chapters of this volume are written by leading social policy scholars from different disciplines and countries, who apply the WOPSI global theoretical framework in a range of contexts and policy fields, shedding light on the scope conditions of social investment, as well as political demand- and supply-side drivers of social investment reforms. This volume on its own or in conjunction with the second volume is an invaluable resource on the state of modern welfare and social investment policies from around the globe.

Julian L. Garritzmann is Professor of Political Science at the Goethe University Frankfurt. As a comparative political scientist, his research lies at the intersection of comparative political economy, political sociology, and comparative political institutions. He specializes in welfare state research, education and social investment policy, global social policy, party politics, and public opinion. Julian Garritzmann holds a PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Before joining Frankfurt, he was Senior Researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and held Visiting Fellow positions at Harvard, Duke, and Rutgers. His publications include The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance (awarded the German Political Science Association's Dissertation Prize), and A Loud, but Noisy Signal? Public Opinion, Parties, and Interest Groups in the Politics of Education Reform in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press) as well as several articles in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, European Sociological Review, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Legislative Studies and West European Politics. Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/juliangarritzmann/ Silja Häusermann At the University of Zurich, she is the co-director of the University Research Priority Programme "Equality of Opportunities". She is the author of The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe: Modernization in Hard Times (CUP, 2010), and a co-author of The Age of Dualization: The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Countries (OUP, 2012), The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (CUP, 2015) and Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries (CUP, 2020). Homepage: www.siljahaeusermann.org Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée. Trained in social science, he has a PhD in political science, and is a former student of Ecole Normale Superieure. He was director of LIEPP (Laboratory for interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies). He works on the comparative political economy of welfare state reforms. He was the scientific coordinator of a European Network of excellence RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare, involving 30 European research institutions or Universities, 190 researchers from 19 European countries). He was Guest Professor at the University of Stockholm, Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University, at Center for European Studies from Harvard University in 2001 and Jean Monnet Fellow in the European University Institute in Florence in 1998-1999.

1. Towards a Worldwide View on the Politics of Social Investment
Bruno Palier, Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann
2. The Politics of Social Investment: A Global Theoretical Framework
Silja Häusermann, Julian L. Garritzmann, Bruno Palier

Part I: The Ideational Context of Social Investment Politics
3. Multiple Sources of the Social Investment Perspective: The OECD and the World Bank
Jane Jenson, Rianne Mahon
4. The Politics of European Union Social Investment Initiatives
Caroline de la Porte, Bruno Palier

Part II: The Political and Economic Scope Conditions of Social Investment Reforms
5. Social Investment and Social Assistance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Armando Barrientos
6. Political Linkage Strategies and Social Investment Policies: Clientelism and Educational Policy in the Developing World
Haohan Chen, Herbert Kitschelt
7. State Capacity and Social Investment: Explaining Variation in Skills Creation Reforms in Latin America
Juan Bogliaccini, Aldo Madariaga
8. The Emergence of Knowledge Economies: Educational Expansion, Labor Market Changes, and the Politics of Social Investment
Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Thomas Kurer, Bruno Palier, Michael Pinggera

Part III: Demand for and Supply of Social Investment - Public Opinion and Social Partners' Social Investment Policy Preferences
9. Employers and Social Investment in Three European Countries: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Emmanuele Pavolini, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
10. Social (Investment) Partners? Trade Unions and the Welfare State for the Knowledge Economy
Niccolo Durazzi, Leonard Geyer
11. Trade Unions, Labor Market Dualization, and Investment in Early Childhood Education and Care in Latin America
Melina Altamirano, Bárbara Zárate-Tenorio
12. Public Preferences Towards Social Investment: Comparing Patterns of Support Across Three Continents
Björn Bremer

Part IV: The Comparative Politics of Social Investment Reforms
13. Social Investment and Neoliberal Legacies in Latin America: Breaking the Mold?
Evelyne Huber, Claire Dunn, John D. Stephens
14. Different Paths to Social Investment? The Politics of Social Investment in North-East Asia and Southern Europe
Margarita Estévez-Abe, Margarita León
15. Social Investment or Childcare on the Cheap? Quality, Workforce, and Access Considerations in the Expansion of Early Childhood Education and Care
Kimberly Morgan
16. The Politics of Social Investment in the Knowledge Economy: Analytical Insights from a Global Comparison
Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	International Policy Exchange
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	246 x 163 mm
Gewicht	885 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-19-758524-8 / 0197585248
ISBN-13	978-0-19-758524-5 / 9780197585245
Zustand	Neuware