Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State

Edited by Bent Greve, Professor in Social Science, Department of Social Sciences and Business, University of Roskilde, Denmark

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction to Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State 15Bent GrevePART II CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES2 What is austerity? 24Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving3 The politics of retrenchment 38Peter Starke4 Populism and the welfare state 53Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Lisa Zanotti5 Measuring retrenchment in welfare states: overcoming the challenges tothe definition, operationalization and measurement of welfare policy change 66Elisa Helena Xiol Y Ferreira and Michael Howlett6 The dependent variable problem revisited: methods, concepts, andscope in the welfare retrenchment literature 76Mehmet Fuat Kına and Erdem Yörük7 Understanding the ‘welfare state’ in the context of austerity and populism 93Sonja Blum and Johanna Kuhlmann8 Austerity, populism, and the politics of blame: an ideational perspective 106Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan9 The social legitimacy of European welfare states after “the age of austerity” 122Femke Roosma10 Austerity and poverty 142Paul SpickerPART III COUNTRY AND WELFARE REGIMES – ANALYSIS OFAUSTERITY/POPULISM11 Nordic welfare state changes especially in the light of migration and thefinancial crisis 155Bent Greve and Jon Kvist12 Fiscal austerity, welfare retrenchment and political populism inContinental European welfare states 167Jan-Ocko Heuer13 The United Kingdom before and after Brexit 182Benjamin Leruth and Peter Taylor-Gooby14 South Europe: reclaiming welfare post-crisis? 197Maria Petmesidou and Ana Marta Guillén15 Austerity, populism and welfare retrenchment in Central and SouthEastern Europe 219Noemi Lendvai-Bainton and Paul Stubbs16 Support to families with children in the Baltic States: pathways ofexpansion and retrenchment from 2004 to 2019 233Jolanta AidukaitePART IV ARE SPECIFIC WELFARE PROGRAMS MORE PRONE TOAUSTERITY – AND IF SO, WHY?17 Incremental or paradigm shifting? Evidence about the retrenchment ofpublic pension schemes in the industrialised world from expenditureand replacement rate data, 1980–2015 256Paul Bridgen18 Unemployment benefits in the 21st century: new dimensions ofretrenchment and the roles of austerity and populism 277Axel Cronert19 Austerity and its corresponding effects on public safety and crime 293Adegbola Ojo20 Family policy in Europe in the era of austerity and populism 306Mikael Nygård and Mikko Kuisma21 Long-term care policies meet austerity 324Barbara Da Roit22 Changes in tax systems 340Nelly Popova23 Labour markets in post-crisis Europe: liberalisation, deregulation, precarisation 356Dragos Adăscălitei and Jason Heyes24 The impact of austerity on social activism 372Shana Cohen25 Gender, austerity and the welfare state 387Sidita Kushi and Ian P. McManusPART V CHANGE TO THE ROLE OF WELFARE STATES?26 Reflection upon the development of, and the future for, welfare states 408Bent GreveIndex

‘The book deserves a very broad readership of researchers, lecturers, students in general as well as professionals in particular.’