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Social policy research in times of crisis

In: Social Policy in Changing European Societies

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  • Bent Greve
  • Thomas Paster

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This chapter discusses how research on welfare state crisis has evolved, influenced by empirical developments as well as theoretical innovations. The chapter identifies four research themes: new social risks, populism and welfare chauvinism, austerity, and social investment. The first three of these four themes deal with dimensions of welfare state crisis: A crisis of benefit adequacy (new social risks), a crisis of political legitimacy of the welfare state (populism and chauvinism), and a crisis of financing (austerity). The last theme, social investment, contrasts with the three sections on welfare state crises. It emerged as a proposal for a policy approach intended to overcome crisis, and thus offered an ideational tool that appears suitable to overcome the legitimacy crisis of the welfare state as well as economic crisis. Future research should focus on how and to which degree a reorientation of social policy towards social investments will take place.

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  • Bent Greve & Thomas Paster, 2022. "Social policy research in times of crisis," Chapters, in: Kenneth Nelson & Rense Nieuwenhuis & Mara A. Yerkes (ed.), Social Policy in Changing European Societies, chapter 18, pages 279-293, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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