Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of
knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to …

In all advanced democracies, policies related to the welfare state are the largest part of
public policy activity. Cross-pressured by globalization, deindustrialization, rising public …

This contribution delineates the sui generis paradigmatic portent of the social investment
perspective. After theoretically defining the notion of a policy paradigm in welfare state …

The twentieth century may be called the century of the welfare state. It saw the emergence,
expansion and maturation of the welfare state as we know it. Some have claimed that these …

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

Social investment has recently received much attention among policy-makers and welfare
state scholars, but the existing literature remains focused on policy-making on the macro …

Raising employment has been at the heart of EU strategies for over twenty years. Social
investment, by now a widely debated topic in the comparative welfare state literature, has …

We set out this book by asking a number of questions about the concept of social
investment: What is it? Which policies can be associated with it? How does it perform? Is it …

This paper surveys the emergence, diffusion, merits, and critics of social investment as a
distinctive welfare policy paradigm. After revisiting its intellectual roots, the article …

The debate on social investment and activation policies implies a new perspective on the
relationship between different social policy areas. From this perspective, economic and …