Transformation of the Welfare State-The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility

By Željko Šević. 2007

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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• Urban governance, neoliberalism and housing reform in China (2006, background): “This will involve the emergence of what Gilbert (2004) calls the enabling state, in which government will have little or no involvement in direct social welfare provision.”
• What does participation mean? An insider perspective from people with disabilities (2008, background): “In keeping with Western cultural values of selfdetermination and personal responsibility [39] participants recognized that the onus was on them to seek, strategize and assert their rights to full participation in society on a par with their nondisabled peers.”
• BEYOND ACTIVATION REFORMING EUROPEAN UNEMPLOYMENT PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN POST-INDUSTRIAL LABOUR MARKETS (2006, background): “Narrower policy-centric studies have underscored the consonance and convergence of cross-national developments (e.g., Gilbert 2002; Handler 2004), a perspective that in the European context has provided evidence for the policy impact of new political ideas, such as ‘third way’ social democracy (cf.…”
• The Provision of Income Protection and Activation Services for the Unemployed in ‘Active’ Welfare States. An International Comparison (2009, background): “During the last decade, formal policy reforms aimed at activating welfare states have been studied extensively (for example, Lødemel and Trickey, 2001; Goul Andersen et al., 2002; Gilbert, 2002; Serrano Pascual and Magnusson, 2007).”
• UK Work/Family Balance Policies and Gender Equality, 1997–2005 (2007, background): “First, Labour sees economic and social objectives as interrelated in the process of rethinking the work/welfare relationship that lies at the core of modern welfare states—rethinking which has not been confined to the UK (e.g., Gilbert 2002).”
• Disorganized welfare mixes: voluntary agencies and new governance regimes in Western Europe (2006, background): “Moreover, the crusade of New Public Management (Belle Hansen and Lauridsen, 2004) and the ‘silent surrender of public responsibility’ for social well-being (Gilbert, 2002) indicate that governance regimes in the social welfare sector are profoundly changing.”
• Welfare States, Labour Market Institutions and the Working Poor: A Comparative Analysis of 20 European Countries (2009, background): “Recently the issue has drawn increasing attention as a potential consequence of welfare state change which is associated with an emphasis on labour market inclusion in favour of social security (Gilbert, 2002; Barbier, 2004).”
• Two Decades of Change in Europe: The Emergence of the Social Investment State (2012, background): “Without much exaggeration, we can conclude that the idea of social investment has established itself as the foundation of a new policy paradigm and that its translation into new social policies has been quite successful.”