The Dynamics of Welfare Markets
Description
The book defines welfare markets as politically shaped, regulated and state supported markets that provide social goods and services through the competitive activities of non-state actors. The chapters focus on what happens after states have initiated welfare markets, with equal weight given to the analysis of the agency of state actors and non-state actors in the contraction, stabilisation, and disruption of welfare markets. By focusing the analysis on two cases of welfare markets, private pensions and home-based domestic/care work, the contributions explore and compare the dynamics of different types of markets.
The research will be of use to sociologists and scholars of social policy interested in the social dimension of welfare markets, political scientists and political economists, as well as diverse epistemic communities across the social sciences.
Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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"This excellent volume explores the emergence of "markets" in pension and care sectors in Europe. The government does not only directly provide services and benefits but also provides incentives and regulations to shape private welfare markets. The volume reveals the intricate politics that take place. This has been an under-studied area in Europe, and this volume fills in that important gap. A must read for anyone interested in the on-going transformation of European welfare states." (Margarita Estévez-Abe, Co-Director, Center for European Studies, Syracuse University, USA)
"This is an important, innovative, intelligent book about how welfare markets are made and remade in the EU. Integrating insights from sociological theories of markets and marketization, the book's analytical framework emphasizes the actions of non-state actors - consumers, employers, firms and workers - in welfare market dynamics. This framework, together with the book's methodologically diverse and empirically rich case studies, offers a strong foundation and clear agenda for future research on welfare marketization, wherever it happens." (Gabrielle Meagher, Macquarie University, Australia)
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Clémence Ledoux is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nantes, France, and former Fellow of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany.
Karen Shire is Chair of Comparative Sociology at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Franca van Hooren is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, and former Fellow of the Netherlands Insitute for Advanced Studies.
Content
Part I: MAPPING THE DYNAMICS OF WELFARE MARKETS. - 1. Introduction: From the Emergence to the Dynamics of Welfare Markets; Clémence Ledoux, Karen Shire, Franca van Hooren.- 2. Changing States, Changing Citizens, Changing Politics?; Jane Gingrich.- 3.The European Union and Multi-Level Contention Over Welfare Markets; Amandine Crespy. - Part 2: (RE)CONSTRUCTING WELFARE MARKETS. - 4. Welfare Markets and Home-Based Domestic/Care Services: Market Dynamics and Mechanisms in Two Different Institutional Contexts - Spain and Sweden; Zenia Hellgren and Barbara Hobson.- 5. The Failure of a Welfare Market: State-Subsidized Private Pensions between Economic Developments and Media Discourses; Frank Nullmeier.- 6. The Role of Evidence and Commissions in the Dynamics of German and Swedish Pension Markets; Stephan Köppe.- Part III: THE DYNAMICS ON THE USER SIDE.- 7. 'Disorientation' in a Capricious Welfare Market: The Case of the German Pension System; Ingo Bode and Ralph Lüth.- 8. Being Dependent and an Employer: The Realities of Private Individual Employment for Dependent Elderly People in France; Eve Meuret-Campfort.- 9. The Political Dynamics of Welfare Markets: The Emergence of Consumer Organisations in the Field of Social Policy; Florian Blank.- Part IV. THE DYNAMICS OF FIRMS AND EMPLOYERS.- 10. The Politics of Segmentation and De-Segmentation of the French Market for Private Retirement Accounts; Marek Naczik.- 11. The Development of Occupational Pension Markets in the European Union and Lithuania: Regulation and Challenges; Audrius Bitinas.- 12. Becoming an Organised Actor in a Welfare Market: Employers' Organisations in the French In-Home Domestic/Care Services Sector; Clémence Ledoux Rafael Encinas de Munagorri, Virginie Guiraudon.- Part V. THE DYNAMICS ON THE LABOUR SIDE.- 13. Informalisation of Work and Workers' Voice in Welfare Markets for In-Home Domestic/Care Service in Germany; Birgit Apitzsch and Karen Shire.- 14. Trade Unions and Welfare Markets: Comparing Dynamics in Three Domestic/Care Markets in the Netherlands; Franca van Hooren. - 15. Workers on Welfare Markets and the Appropriation of Their Rights: The Case of Mothers' Assistants in France since 1977; Marie Cartier.