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The End of Welfare as We Know It?
Get PDFDuring the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research assumes that, in fact, the end of the welfare state has already occurred. The authors of this volume hope to contribute to a clearer understanding of how, where and to what extent welfare state settings really have changed since the 1980s. Their work examines questions of change and continuity while exploring various welfare practices in the Western world
The End of Welfare as We Know It? Continuity and Change in Western Welfare State Settings and Practices
Get PDFDuring the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research assumes that, in fact, the end of the welfare state has already occurred. The authors of this volume hope to contribute to a clearer understanding of how, where and to what extent welfare state settings really have changed since the 1980s. Their work examines questions of change and continuity while exploring various welfare practices in the Western world
The End of Welfare as We Know It?
Get PDFDuring the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of contemporary social science research assumes that, in fact, the end of the welfare state has already occurred. The authors of this volume hope to contribute to a clearer understanding of how, where and to what extent welfare state settings really have changed since the 1980s. Their work examines questions of change and continuity while exploring various welfare practices in the Western world
Trust Issues!? – Vertrauen in modernen Gesellschaften
No full textVertrauen ist regelmäßiger Gegenstand von Krisendiagnosen – wie aber kann Vertrauen gestärkt und aufgebaut werden? Die Beiträger*innen werfen einen wissenschaftlichen Blick auf Vertrauen und dessen Relevanz für die gesellschaftliche Zukunft. Dafür unterscheiden sie gezielt zwischen unterschiedlichen Gesellschaftsbereichen, fassen den jeweiligen Forschungsgegenstand zusammen und nehmen Stellung zu offenen Fragen. So gelingt es ihnen, die Kontextabhängigkeit von Vertrauen und dessen enorme Bedeutung in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Zersplitterung herauszustellen. Der begleitende Podcast »Trust Issues!?« ermöglicht dabei, über den Tellerrand der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive hinauszublicken
On the global frontier of post-welfare policymaking : conditional cash transfers as fast social policy
No full textThe period since the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals¹ has been marked by an unprecedented attempt to build, advance, and consolidate a new hegemonic front in the field of social-welfare policy. Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have been in the vanguard of this effort. CCTs provide modest cash payments only to those low-income households that “play by the rules,” enrolling children in school, attending to domestic hygiene and appropriate healthcare, and building the human capital of the next generation. The CCT model encapsulates a new logic of social assistance quite different to the welfare-state rationalities of needs-based entitlement and universal coverage: it emphasizes socioeconomic promotion over social protection and long-term human capital investment over temporary relief; it advances the principles of reciprocal obligation and “co-responsibility” over universal human rights or top-down forms of social responsibility; it privileges interventions over generalized entitlements; and it inculcates active engagement over passive benefit receipt, an approach captured in the phrase often associated with these programs: “paying for good behavior.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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