The Crisis Imperative: Crisis Rhetoric And Welfare State Reform in Belgium And the Netherlands in the Early 1990s (Amsterdam University Press - Changing Welfare States Series) - Softcover

Kuipers, Sanneke

 
9789053568088: The Crisis Imperative: Crisis Rhetoric And Welfare State Reform in Belgium And the Netherlands in the Early 1990s (Amsterdam University Press - Changing Welfare States Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9053568085 ISBN 13: 9789053568088
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press, 2006

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The Netherlands and Belgium exemplified the pathology of 'welfare without work' that characterized continental welfare states - until a political crisis in both countries produced a surprising divergence in scope and extent of policy change in the early 1990s. In Belgium, government announced major reforms but its social security arrangements proved remarkably resilient. In the Netherlands, policy makers announced and implemented unprecedented cutbacks and a major overhaul of the disability benefit administration and supervision.This book argues that reform is the product of the deliberate construction of a crisis as an imperative for change. It explains how crisis rhetoric resulted in drastic policy change in the Netherlands and in incremental change in Belgium.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sanneke Kuipers is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Management Studies at Leiden University.


Sanneke Kuipers was postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Public Administration at Leiden University. Currently she works at Crisisplan Leiden.

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The Netherlands and Belgium exemplified the pathology of ‘welfare without work’ that characterized continental welfare states — until a political crisis in both countries produced a surprising divergence in scope and extent of policy change in the early 1990s. In Belgium, government announced major reforms but its social security arrangements proved remarkably resilient. In the Netherlands, policy makers announced and implemented unprecedented cutbacks and a major overhaul of the disability benefit administration and supervision.This book argues that reform is the product of the deliberate construction of a crisis as an imperative for change. It explains how crisis rhetoric resulted in drastic policy change in the Netherlands and in incremental change in Belgium.

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The Netherlands and Belgium exemplified the pathology of welfare without work that characterized continental welfare states until a political crisis in both countries produced a surprising divergence in scope and extent of policy change in the early 1990s. In Belgium, government announced major reforms but its social security arrangements proved remarkably resilient. In the Netherlands, policy makers announced and implemented unprecedented cutbacks and a major overhaul of the disability benefit administration and supervision.This book argues that reform is the product of the deliberate construction of a crisis as an imperative for change. It explains how crisis rhetoric resulted in drastic policy change in the Netherlands and in incremental change in Belgium.

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Verlag
Amsterdam University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9053568085
ISBN 13 
9789053568088
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
232
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