Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States

United Germany in Perspective

Lutz Leisering, Stephan Leibfried (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

396 Seiten

2001
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-00352-0 (ISBN)

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Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States is the English-language adaptation of one of the most important contributions to welfare economics published in recent years. Professors Leibfried and Leisering offer a time-based (dynamic) analysis of the study of poverty, and suggest the need for a radical re-think of conventional theoretical and policy approaches. The core of this study is the empirical analysis of the life course of recipients of 'Social Assistance' in Germany, although the conclusions are put into a wider context of socio-economic and socio-political analysis and comparative observations are made with other countries, notably the USA. Time, Life and Poverty will be of interest to upper-level students, researchers and policy-makers in a wide range of social science disciplines, including: economics, social policy, sociology, psychology and European studies.

Preface R. Dahrendorf; Part I. The Welfare State and the Life Course Passages Through Poverty: 1. Poverty in the welfare state: the life-course approach; 2. Life course as politics; Part II. Poverty in the Life Course: The Dynamics of Social Decline and Ascent: 3. Objective time: how long do people claim social assistance?; 4. Subjective time: how social assistance is perceived and evaluated; 5. Living time: poverty careers between exclusion and integration; 6. Institutionalised time: does social assistance create dependency?; Part III. Poverty and Social Change Debates and Policies: 7. Between denial and dramatisation: images of poverty in postwar Germany; 8. Disruption and continuity in life courses: poverty in unified Germany; 9. Increasingly dynamic? The impact of social change on social assistance dynamics; Part IV. Poverty and Society: Towards a New Welfare State?: 10. Time and poverty: towards a new picture of poverty and social exclusion; 11. Paths out of poverty: perspectives on active policy; 12. Social inequality in transition; 13. Individual lives and the welfare state - recasting the German welfare regime.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.3.2001
Übersetzer	John Veit-Wilson
Vorwort	Ralf Dahrendorf
Zusatzinfo	17 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	627 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-521-00352-0 / 0521003520
ISBN-13	978-0-521-00352-0 / 9780521003520
Zustand	Neuware