The Danish welfare state : a sociological investigation /: a sociological investigation. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Morten Frederiksen, and Jørgen Elm Larsen.
• Editors: Bengtsson, Tea Torbenfeldt; (Professor of sociology), Frederiksen, Morten; Larsen, Jørgen Elm
• Contents: 1. Is Risk Transforming the Danish Welfare State?; Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Morten Frederiksen and Jørgen Elm Larsen; PART I; 2. Denmark in an International Perspective; Peter Abrahamson; 3. Social Investments as Risk Management; Jon Kvist; 4. Employment Relations, Flexicurity and Risk: Explaining the Risk Profile of the Danish Flexicurity Model; Carsten Strøby Jensen; 5. Precarity and Public Risk Management: Trends in Denmark Across Four Decades; Stefan B. Andrade; 6. Towards a New Culture of Blame?; Morten Frederiksen; PART II; 7. When Family Life is Risky Business— Immigrant Divorce in the Women-Friendly Welfare State; Mai Heide Ottosen and Anika Liversage; 8. The Risky Business of Educational Choice of Meritocratic Society; Kristian Karlson and Anders Holm; 9. Health in a Risk Perspective: The Case of Overweight; Nanna Mik-Meyer; 10. Failing Ageing? Risk Management in the Active Ageing Society; Tine Rostgaard; PART III; 11. Controlling Young People through Treatment and Punishment; Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson; 12. Alcohol and Risk Management in a Welfare State; Margaretha Järvinen; 13. The Tough and the Brittle: Calculating and Managing the Risk of Refugees; Katrine Syppli Kohl; 14. Cash Benefit Recipients – Vulnerable or villains?; Dorte Caswell, Jørgen Elm Larsen and Stella Mia Sieling-Monas; 15. Risk Dynamics and Risk Management in the Danish Welfare State; Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Morten Frederiksen and Jørgen Elm Larsen
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 361.6509489; Welfare state -- Denmark; Ethnic Studies/General; Social Classes; Aid & relief programmes; Sociology: family & relationships; Welfare & benefit systems; Denmark -- Social policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137527325; 1137527323
• Related ISBNs: 9781137527301
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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