Bjørn Hvinden, Håkan Johansson

Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States (eBook, ePUB)

Dynamics of Choice, Duties and Participation In a Changing Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic and multifaceted as a result of Europeanization and individualization.

Written by interdisciplinary contributors from politics, sociology, law and philosophy, it examines the transformation of social citizenship through a series of illuminating case studies, comparing Nordic countries and other European nations.

Dealing with the following areas of national and European welfare policy, legislation and practice:

• activation - reforms linking income maintenance and employment promotion
• scope for participation of marginal groups in deliberation and decision-making
• impact of human rights legislation for welfare and legal protection against discrimination and social barriers to equal market participation
• coordination of social security systems to facilitate cross-border mobility in Europe
• pension reform - efforts to make pension systems sustainable.

Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States will be of interest to students and researchers of social policy, comparative welfare, social law, political science, sociology and European studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134120925
• Artikelnr.: 38264614

Autorenporträt

Bjørn Hvinden is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

Håkan Johansson is Researcher and Lecturer in Social Work at the School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Växjö University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Citizenship in Contemporary Welfare States - Issues and
Perspectives 1. Opening Citizenship: Why Do We Need a New Understanding of
Social Citizenship? 2. From Active States to Active Citizenship? The Impact
of Economic Openness and Transnational Governance 3. What Do We Mean by
Active Citizenship? Part 2: Towards a New Balance of Rights and Duties -
Activation Reform 4. Nordic Activation Reforms in a European Context: A
Distinct Universalistic Model? 5. Individualizing Welfare Provision: The
Integrated Approach of the Finnish Activation Reform 6. The Challenges of
Decentralized Delivery of Services: The Scope for Active Citizenship in
Swedish and Norwegian Activation Policies Part 3: The Increased Scope for
Participation and Inclusion of Marginal Groups 7. Claiming Participation
Rights: Social Mobilization and Citizenship in Denmark and Norway 8.
Capabilities and Participation: Russian Women Immigrants in North Norway 9.
Europeanization 'From Below': The OMC Process on Social Inclusion in the
Swedish Welfare State Part 4: Marketization of Citizenship? Choice,
Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights 10. Contrasting Legal Concepts of
Active Citizenship: Europe and the Nordic Countries 11. Membership and
Migration: Market Citizenship or European Citizenship? 12. Double
Discrimination: Human Rights and Immigrant Women in Denmark within the
Context of the Nordic Legal Tradition 13. From Disabling Barriers to
Participation: The Opportunities Created by the EU Equality Strategy 14.
Enlarging Freedom of Choice: Pension Reforms in the Nordic Countries and
Germany 15. Conclusions: Remaking Social Citizenship in Nordic Welfare
States