Institutional Change and European Social Policy Reform

Abstract

In recent years we have seen important reforms taking place in many European welfare states, a development that fly in the face of the expectations of much of the earlier literature on welfare states and institutional change. This panel brings together paper that addresses a number of aspects of such broader change. Two themes that stand out are the increasing privatization of social policy, here in health and pension policy, and the question of how we should understand the radical reforms that were introduced in Southern Europe during the economic crisis. The papers engage with different theoretical perspectives, but are joined together by similar case study approaches.

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Primos pero no hermanos: The Growing Divergence of Labour Relations and Corporate Governance in Italy and Spain	View Paper Details
Support for private involvement in a National Health Service: the role of private health insurance, self-rated health and socioeconomic status	View Paper Details
The Politics of Choice in the Reconstitution of Retirement Risks: Individualisation and Marketisation of Pension Provision	View Paper Details
Pathways of learning: Pension policies and policy learning in different political economies	View Paper Details
The Right and Minimum income. Explaining Italian exceptionalism	View Paper Details