Irish welfare state in the twenty-first century : challenges and change /: challenges and change. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mary P. Murphy & Fiona Dukelow.
• Editors: Murphy, Mary, 1964-; Dukelow, Fiona
• Contents: Also by the editors; Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; Process and Plan of the Book; References; 2: Welfare States: How They Change and Why; Introduction; Crises and Welfare State Change; Drivers of Structural Change; Neo-Liberalisation: Privatisation, Marketisation, Corporate Welfare and Fiscalisation; Internationalisation: Globalisation, Europeanisation and Financialisation; Governance, Managerialism and New Politics of Welfare Reform How Do Drivers of Structural Change Impact on the Welfare State? An Outline of Four Dimensions of Welfare State Change What is Welfare for?; Who Delivers Welfare?; Who Pays for Welfare?; Who Benefits?; Conclusion; References; 3: The Irish Social Protection System: Change in Comparative Context; The Irish Social Protection System; Evaluating Change in Social Protection Systems; The Impact of the Great Recession in Ireland, 2007-2013; The Irish Social Protection System in Comparative Context; The Impact of External Policy Actors; Conclusion; References 4: Activation: Solving Unemployment or Supporting a Low-Pay Economy? Introduction; What for: Enabling or Disabling, Supportive or Punitive?; Pathways to Work (PTW); Enabling: Restructuring of Institutions and Active Labour Market Programmes; Regulation: Working Aged Payments: Cuts, Conditions and Sanctions; Compensation and Low Pay; IWBs and Employer Subsidies; Activation for What-the Low-Pay Context; How Many are Low-Paid?; Who Are the Low-Paid?; What Is Activation for; Who Delivers it; Who Benefits; and Who Pays; Conclusion; References 5: Redistribution in the Irish Pension System: Upside Down? Introduction; The Irish Pension System; The Function of a Pension System; The Privatisation of Pensions; Financing Pensions: Who Pays?; State Pensions; Occupational Pensions; State Expenditure; The Beneficiaries of the Irish Pension System; The Irish Pensions System and the Financial Crisis; An Alternative Policy Trajectory; Conclusion; References; 6: Personal Finance: Financial Services, Access to Credit and Debt Management; Introduction; Changes in Financial Service (Including Credit) Provision Changes in Debt Management Provision Reliance on Market Logic; The Role of the State; Changing Attitudes Around Personal Finance; Data Deficiencies; Conclusion; References; 7: Irish Water Services Reform: Past, Present and Future; Introduction; The Early Evolution of Water Policy and Services; Water Services: Challenges and Change; Rolling Back the Citizen, Rolling Out the Customer; Paying for Water; Delivering Water Services; Conclusion; References; 8: Reform of the Irish Healthcare System: What Reform?; Introduction; Irish Health Policy
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 361.9415; Social sciences; Public welfare -- Ireland -- 21st century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services; Public welfare; Social policy; Business & Economics -- Economics -- Theory; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Economic theory & philosophy; Sociology: work & labour; Social issues & processes; Sociology; Welfare state; Welfare economics; Political sociology; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Central government policies; Ireland -- Social policy; Ireland; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137571380; 1137571381
• Related ISBNs: 1137571373; 9781137571373
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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