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European Social Care Services: Is It Possible To Identify Models ?:
Anneli Anttonen,Jorma Sipilä +1 more
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In this paper, social care services are defined as a specific way of increasing the autonomy of both care pro viders and care receivers, and they represent an expanding component of the welfare state; they are important for women; and there are major differences between different countries in social care.Abstract:
The purpose of this article is to bring social care services into the domain of comparative social policy research. The reason why it is important for social care services to be incor porated into the debate is that they represent an expanding component of the welfare state; that they are important for women; and that there are major differences between different countries in social care services. We have defined social care services as a specific way of increasing the autonomy of both care pro viders and care receivers.read more
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The concept of social care and the analysis of contemporary welfare states.
Mary C. Daly,Jane Lewis +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of social care serves to shift the centre of analysis from specific policy domains so that instead of focusing on cash benefits or services in isolation it becomes possible to consider them as part of a broader set of inter-relating elements.
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Varieties of familialism: The caring function of the family in comparative perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of paid parental leave in nine EU member states gives an example of gendered and de-gendered variants of familialism, and the structural gender effects of the four ideal types of familialisms are reflected upon.
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Comparing Care Regimes in Europe
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare and categorize care strategies for children and elderly persons in different member states of the European Union, while also taking into account the varied modalities for providing care, like leave arrangements, financial provisions, and social services.
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Restructuring the welfare state: reforms in long-term care in Western European countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the most significant reforms recently introduced in six European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden and the UK) as regards long-term care are analyzed at macro- (institutional and quantitative), meso- (service delivery structures) and micro-level (families, caregivers and people in need).
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Can we identify intergenerational policy regimes in europe
Chiara Saraceno,Wolfgang Keck +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether it is possible to recognise specific patterns of institutionally regulated downward (towards children) and upward (to the old) intergenerational obligations with regard to care and financial support, and to identify specific country profiles and clusters of countries in Europe.
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes
TL;DR: The idea of the male-breadwinner family model has served historically to cut across established typologies of welfare regimes, and further that the model has been modified in different ways and to different degrees in particular countries as mentioned in this paper.
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Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States
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Gender, Class and Citizenship in the Comparative Analysis of Welfare State Regimes: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
TL;DR: The incorporation of gender into the analysis raises questions concerning taken for granted assumptions about the meaning of citizenship and, in particular, concerning the relationship between formal citizenship status and the exercise of citizenship rights as mentioned in this paper.
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No Exit, No Voice: Women's Economic Dependency and the Welfare State:
TL;DR: The family is viewed as a unit of shared interests where incomes are shared by all members of the family as discussed by the authors, and the family is seen as a common unit of common interest.