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This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its political, economic and social implications is based around four crucial questions, namely what welfare is for, who delivers welfare, who pays for welfare, and who benefits. Over the course of ten chapters, the authors examine the answers as they relate to social protection, labour market activation, pensions, finance, water, early child education and care, health, housing and corporate welfare. They also innovatively address the impact of crisis on the welfare state in Northern Ireland. The result is to isolate key drivers of structural welfare reform, and assess how globalisation, financialisation, neo-liberalisation, privatisation, marketisation and new public management have deepened and diversified their impact on the post-crisis Irish welfare state. This in-depth analysis will appeal to sociologists, economists, political scientists and welfare state practitioners interested in the Irish welfare state and more generally in the analysis of welfare state change.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mary P. Murphy is Lecturer in Irish Politics and Society at Maynooth University, Ireland
Fiona Dukelow is a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland
Fiona Dukelow is a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Change
Editors: Mary P. Murphy, Fiona Dukelow
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57138-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57137-3Published: 12 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57138-0Published: 04 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 337
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Politics of the Welfare State, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Political Sociology