Choice : challenges and perspectives for the European welfare states /: challenges and perspectives for the European welfare states. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bent Greve.
• Other Names: Greve, Bent
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: Editorial Introduction (Bent Greve, University of Roskilde, Denmark). -- 1. Can Choice in Welfare States Be Equitable? (Bent Greve, University of Roskilde, Denmark). -- 2. The Other Le Grand? Evaluating the 'Other Invisible Hand'in Welfare Services in England (Ian Greener, University of Durham, UK and Martin Powell, University of Birmingham, UK). -- 3. Exit, Voice and Quality in the English Education Sector (Deborah Wilson, University of Bristol, UK). -- 4. When 'Choice' and 'Choice' Are not the Same: Institutional Frameworks of Choice in the German Welfare System (Florian Blank, Westfa;lische Wilhelms-Universita;t Münster, Germany). -- 5. Choosing Welfare or Losing Social Citizenship? Citizens' Free Choice in Recent Italian Welfare State Reforms (Paolo R. Graziano, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy). -- 6. The 'Consumer Principle' in the Care of Elderly People: Free Choice and Actual Choice in the German Welfare State (Melanie Eichler, University of Hamburg, Germany and Birgit Pfau-Effinger, University of Hamburg, Germany). -- 7. A Comparative Discussion of the Gendered Implications of Cash-for-Care Schemes: Markets, Independence and Social Citizenship in Crisis? (Kirstein Rummery, University of Stirling, Scotland). -- 8. Challenging Solidarity? An Analysis of Exit Options in Social Policies (Menno Fenger, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands). -- 9. Freedom of Choice through the Promotion of Gender Equality (Steven Saxonberg, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic).
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (152 pages)
• Subjects: 361.65094; Social choice -- Europe; Welfare state -- Europe; Consumers' preferences -- Europe
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444390476
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