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The Uses of Social Investment

Anton Hemerijck

Abstract

The Uses of Social Investment surveys the emergence, diffusion, limits, merits, and politics of social investment as the welfare policy paradigm for the twenty-first century seen through the lens of the life-course contingencies of the knowledge economy and modern familyhood. Over a span of thirty-five contributions, The Uses of Social Investment revisits the intellectual roots, surveys the evidence of social investment progress in theory and practice, and looks at research methodology and normative philosophy. In addition, the volume also reviews the criticisms that have been levelled against ... More

Keywords: financial crisis, knowledge economy, social investment, welfare policy, financial austerity

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9780198790488
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2017 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198790488.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Anton Hemerijck, editor
Professor of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence, and Centennial Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Part 1 Introduction

1 Social Investment and Its Critics

Anton Hemerijck

Part 2 Limits to Social Investment

2 Social Investment

Brian Nolan

3 ‘Social Investment’

Jean-Claude Barbier

4 Family Relationships and Gender Equality in the Social Investment Discourse

Chiara Saraceno

5 Social Investment and the Matthew Effect

Giuliano Bonoli, Bea Cantillon, and Wim Van Lancker

6 The ‘New Welfare State’ under Fiscal Strain

Daniel Mertens

Part 3 Social Investment Endowment and Extensions

7 Enabling Social Policy

Lane Kenworthy

8 Social Investment and the Service Economy Trilemma

Anne Wren

9 Towards Employment Insurance?

Günther Schmid

10 Social Investment and Childcare Expansion

Margarita León

11 Addressing Human Capital Risks and the Role of Institutional Complementarities

Verena Dräbing and Moira Nelson

12 Capacitating Services and the Bottom-Up Approach to Social Investment

Charles Sabel, Jonathan Zeitlin, and Sigrid Quack

13 A Normative Foundation for the Social Investment Approach?

Nathalie Morel and Joakim Palme

Part 4 Social Investment Assessment: Conceptualization and Methods

14 Practical Pluralism in the Empirical Study of Social Investment

Brian Burgoon

15 Social Investment and Its Discount Rate

Iain Begg

16 Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Investment

Johan De Deken

17 Measuring Social Investment Returns

Gerlinde Verbist

Part 5 Comparative Social Investment Experience

18 Developing and Spreading a Social Investment Perspective

Jane Jenson

19 De-universalization and Selective Social Investment in Scandinavia?

Kees van Kersbergen and Jonas Kraft

20 The Truncated German Social Investment Turn

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

21 The Impact of Social Investment Reforms on Income and Activation in the Netherlands

Menno Soentken, Franca van Hooren, and Deborah Rice

22 Ireland

Rory O’Donnell and Damian Thomas

23 Social Investment in a Federal Welfare State

Alain Noël

24 A Social Investment Turn in East Asia?

Timo Fleckenstein and Soohyun Christine Lee

25 Social Investment in Latin America

Johan Sandberg and Moira Nelson

26 Why No Social Investment in Italy

Yuri Kazepov and Costanzo Ranci

Part 6 EU Social Investment Advocacy

27 Social Investment for a Cohesive and Competitive European Union

Evelyn Astor, Lieve Fransen, and Marc Vothknecht

28 Can European Socioeconomic Governance Be Social Investment Proof?

Sonja Bekker

29 Social Investment as a Policy Platform

Frank Vandenbroucke

30 Accelerator or Brake?

Maurizio Ferrera

Part 7 The Politics of Social Investment

31 The Politics of Social Investment

Silja Häusermann and Bruno Palier

32 Three Challenges for the Social Investment Strategy

John Myles

33 Public Opinion and the Politics of Social Investment

Marius R. Busemeyer

34 Social Investment, Social Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Xenophobia

Colin Crouch

Part 8 Conclusion

35 The Uses of Affordable Social Investment

Anton Hemerijck

End Matter

Bibliography

Index