The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/oso/public/content/oho_politics/9780199579396/toc.html Contributors to this volume - Willem Adema is Head of the Asian Social and Health Outreach at the OECD in Paris. Edwin Amenta is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Klaus Armingeon is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bern and Director of the Institute of Political Science (IPW). Wilhelm A. Arts is Professor of Modern Sociology at University College Utrecht and Professor Emeritus of General and Theoretical Sociology at Tilburg University. Thomas Bahle is a Researcher at the Department of European Societies and their Integration at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). Juan Ariel Bogliaccini is a doctoral student at the Political Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jonathan Bradshaw is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York and Member of the Research Committee of the International Social Security Association (ISSA). Marius R. Busemeyer is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Eero Carroll is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University. Francis G. Castles is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and at the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) in Bremen. Stephen Castles is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney and Associate Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford. Linda J. Cook is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University Belfast. Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). Tony Fahey is Professor of Social Policy and Head of the School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin. Gerda Falkner is Director of the Institute for European Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Political Science and President of the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Studies of the State University of Milan. Richard Freeman teaches theory and method in the Graduate School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. John Gelissen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University. Howard Glennerster is Professor Emeritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics and Co-Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE). Ian Gough is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath. Alexander M. Hicks is Winship Distinguished Research Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Karl Hinrichs is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy Research (CeS) at the University of Bremen and Professor of Political Science at the Humboldt University Berlin. Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina. Ellen M. Immergut is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Humboldt University Berlin. Torben Iversen is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. Olli Kangas is Head of the Research Department of the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela). Franz-Xaver Kaufmann is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bielefeld. Mikko Kauto is Head of the Research Department at the Finnish Centre for Pensions. Lane Kenworthy is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona. Desmond King is the Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. Martin Kohli is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute in Florence. Stein Kuhnle is Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the Hertie School of Governance I Berlin. Stephan Leibfried is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Bremen, Director of the Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the State" (TranState) and member of the Unit History and Institutions of the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) there. Matthieu Leimgruber is Lecturer at the University of Geneva and a Research Fellow at the Swiss National Science Foundation. Jonah Levy is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Jane Lewis is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Julia F. Lynch is Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Philip Manow is Professor of Political Science (Modern Political Theory) at the University of Heidelberg. Isabela Mares is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Rita Nikolai is Head of the Junior Research Group "Education and Transitions into the Labour Market" (funded by the Federal Department of Education and Research) at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Michelle Norris is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin. Frank Nullmeier is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen, Principle Investigator at the Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the State" (TranState), and Director of the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS), heading its Unit Theory and Constitution of the Welfare State. Herbert Obinger is Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy at the University of Bremen, directs the Unit History and Institutions of the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) and directs two projects in the Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the State" (TranState). Ann Shola Orloff is Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Political Science at Northwestern University. August Osterle is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Einar Overbye is Professor of International Social and Health Policy at the Oslo University College. Bruno Palier is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF). Joakim Palme is Director of the Institute for Future Studies, Sweden. Ito Peng is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. Michaela Pfeifer is a Researcher at the Department of European Societies and their Integration at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham. Mark Priestley is Professor of Disability Policy at the University of Leeds. Fiona Ross is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of Bristol. Heinz Rothgang is Head of the Unit Health Economics, Health Policy and Outcomes Research at the Centre for Social Policy Research (CeS) at the University of Bremen and Principle Investigator at the Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the State" (TranState). Anne Sander is a Research Associate at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Peter Saunders is Australian Professorial Fellow and Scienta Professor of Social Policy in the Social Policy Research Centre of the University of New South Wales. Carl-Ulrik Schierup is Professor and Director of the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linkoping University. Manfred G. Schmidt is Professor of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg. Ola Sjoberg is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute of Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University. John D. Stephens is the Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina. Stefan Svallfors is Professor of Sociology at Umea University. Duane Swank is Professor of Political Science at the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Goran Therborn is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Kees van Kersbergen is Professor of Political Science at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam. Uwe Wagschal is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Claus Wendt is Project Director at the Department of European Societies and their Integration at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). Stuart White is Director of the Public Policy Unit, University Lecturer in Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Jesus College at the University of Oxford. Peter Whiteford is Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and a former OECD officer. Joseph Wong is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the Canada Research Chair in Political Science. Jan Zutavern is a Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.