Research Handbook on Social Care Policy

Costanzo Ranci, Tine Rostgaard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

596 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83910-368-1 (ISBN)

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This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of recent advances in social care policy scholarship. Spanning a breadth of issues and policy programmes, it presents a systematic, empirically and theoretically grounded overview of social care policy research, addressing a notable gap in a field often dominated by issue or country-specific studies.

Recognising that social care is emerging as a respected and institutionalized public policy field, this Research Handbook investigates how social care policies have gained momentum across the globe and documents the development of contemporary literature in this area. The Handbook presents a topical and global overview of social care policies for children, frail older people and adults with disabilities, exploring the institutional setting of care systems, care policies and related trends. Chapter authors assess care work’s (in)formalization, marketization, quality and affordability, as well as exploring care poverty, inequality, and the consequences of the pandemic for care.

A crucial read for social care policy scholars, this Handbook is also a vital resource for academics, researchers and students of social work, social policy, sociology, political science, public administration studies, gender studies, childcare, and disability studies.

Edited by Costanzo Ranci, Professor of Sociology, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy and Tine Rostgaard, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark

Contents
1 Social care policy in the twenty-first century: an introduction 1
Costanzo Ranci and Tine Rostgaard
PART I SETTING THE SCENE
2 The concept of care: from origins to future challenges 21
Mary Daly
3 Care as unpaid and paid work 37
Minna Zechner and Anneli Anttonen
4 New demographics, family structures and care responsibilities in Europe 51
Katharina Herlofson, Hanna Vangen and Martina Brandt
5 Work–care reconciliation: tensions and emerging issues 70
Sue Yeandle
6 Care actors and relations in feminist welfare state analysis: the unfinished
agenda 88
Rossella Ciccia
PART II THE CARE FIELD
7 Changes in long-term care policy: striking a balance between
sustainability and universalism 103
Costanzo Ranci and Tine Rostgaard
8 Disability politics and social care 119
Teppo Kröger and Yueh-Ching Chou
9 Early childhood care and education policies: from custody to social
investment and beyond 132
Stefania Sabatinelli
PART III THE ORGANIZATION OF CARE
10 Financial sustainability and the financing of long-term care systems 152
Adelina Comas-Herrera, Martin Knapp and Ricardo Rodrigues
11 Marketization and privatization of social care 168
Gabrielle Meagher and Marta Szebehely
12 Cash-for care in long-term care for older people: a historical and
comparative account 188
Costanzo Ranci, Barbara da Roit, Emma Garavaglia and Tine Rostgaard
13 Technology for care and living: a critical perspective 206
Luciana Lolich and Virpi Timonen
PART IV CARE WORK
14 Dilemmas of professionalism in care work for older people 221
Hanne Marlene Dahl
15 Care workers: trends and challenges of the long-term care labour market
across Europe 236
Costanzo Ranci
16 The changing relationship between formal and informal care work 250
Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Hildegard Theobald
17 Migrant workers in long-term care: dynamics and country variations 263
Costanzo Ranci, Tine Rostgaard, Giovanni Lamura and August Österle
PART V POLICY ISSUES
18 Social investment in care policies 280
Chiara Saraceno
19 Subjective quality of care for children and older people and its spatial
variation: a comparative investigation 294
Nevena Kulic and Tine Rostgaard
20 User participation in health and social care 311
Karen Christensen
21 The politics of family and childcare policy reform: do parties still matter? 328
Manuel Alvariño and Margarita León
PART VI THE GEOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL CARE
22 Social care policies in East-Asia: reforms between state and market 347
Ito Peng and Izumi Niki
23 Care for older people in Canada’s resilient liberal welfare regime 363
Jane Jenson
24 Childcare policy in the liberal welfare states of North America 379
Linda A. White, Susan Prentice and Anika Ganness
25 Childcare policies in South America: the persistence of selectivity and
maternalism in care services expansion 394
Gabriela Marzonetto
26 Alike but different? Care for children and older people in the Nordic
caring states 410
Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard
27 Common trends or diverging paths? Social care policies in ECEC and LTC
in England and Scotland since devolution 430
Ingela K. Naumann, Bronwen J. Cohen and Joanna Sakali
28 Social care policies in conservative welfare states 447
Blanche Le Bihan and August Österle
29 Limits to growth of familialism? The evolution of care systems in
Southern Europe 462
Costanzo Ranci, Marco Arlotti and Stefania Sabatinelli
30 Transformation of care regimes in Central Eastern Europe: the case of
Croatia and the Czech Republic 483
Ivana Dobrotić and Blanka Plasová
PART VII OUTCOMES
31 Who will still need me, who will still feed me, when I’m 64? Inequalities
in long-term care 502
Ricardo Rodrigues, Cassandra Simmons, Stefania Ilinca and Eszter Zólyomi
32 Unmet needs and care poverty 517
Teppo Kröger
33 Long-term care systems and their pandemic preparedness: lessons from
COVID-19 528
Margarita Estévez-Abe
34 Early childhood education and care in times of COVID-19 542
Sonja Blum and Ivana Dobrotić

Erscheinungsdatum	11.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83910-368-X / 183910368X
ISBN-13	978-1-83910-368-1 / 9781839103681
Zustand	Neuware