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This comprehensive study provides a thorough account of important policy developments in the Netherlands that are significant beyond the borders of the Dutch welfare state. It demonstrates the dramatic changes that have taken place in the protection of old and new social risks, exploring the mechanisms behind these changes in the context of corporatist welfare state institutions. This book is essential for welfare state scholars, graduate students and policy makers.
Price: $127.95
Pages: 176
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date:
29 June 2011
ISBN: 9781847429636
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Welfare and benefit systems, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
"This is a valuable book which extends discussion of new social risks into new areas." Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent
Mara A. Yerkes is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Queensland, Australia. Previously, Yerkes has conducted research at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of various articles on welfare state policy, the combination of work and care, and gendered patterns of employment, particularly with regard to the prevalence of part-time work.
Introduction ~ with Romke van der Veen; Changing social risks, changing risk protection? ~ with Romke van der Veen; Sickness and disability reform in the Netherlands; Collective childcare protection: The new workfare; Employability: Lack of clarity, lack of protection ~ with Hans Pruijt and Pascal Derogee; Transforming the Dutch welfare state