Bücher von Bjarne Hastrup

Social Welfare - The Danish Model charts the dynamics between the public sector, the business sector and the civil sector. These are the three main actors in the continued negotiations about the Danish model; is it through their agreement (and disagreemnt) that the new and improved versions of the model emerge in support of the country's progress and competitive advantage. And - not least - in support of a society that is a decent society for all.

Major Trends in Danish and Global Welfare at the Dawn of the 21st Century provides an analysis of the dramatic changes that have taken place in the Danish welfare system during the past century.Denmark still has superstar status as the world's most notable welfare society. At the same time, Danes have had to reform and adapt their welfare model, which experienced both a very exorbitant success at the beginning of the period covered and a shocking setback thereafter - a crisis the country has just recently recovered from. Amid these events, the Danes decided to reform the design of their welfare state to suit globalization and a new demographic. This was the first time that conditions far into the future were crucial to the organization of welfare today. A new orientation was created in welfare thinking; one that went from help and support to help to self-help, and to jobs and the procurement of labour with strong incentives via support policies and pensions to remain in the labour market for longer. Through these reforms, Denmark became the most digitized society in the West, but it did not solve its ever-growing integration problems, and likewise inequality grew in the otherwise so equal Danish society.

Hovedstrømninger giver en analyse af de dramatiske forandringer, der er sket i velfærden i løbet af de seneste århundrede.Danmark har stadig en stjernestatus som verdens mest markante velfærdssamfund. Samtidig har danskerne måttet reformere og tilpasse deres velfærdsmodel, som har oplevet både en helt eksorbitant fremgang i begyndelsen af perioden og et rystende tilbageslag efterfølgende - en krise, landet netop er kommet sig over.Midt i disse begivenheder besluttede danskerne at reformere deres velfærdsstats design, så det passede til globaliseringen og til en ny demografi. Det er første gang, at forhold langt ude i fremtiden er afgørende for indretningen af velfærden i dag.Der er skabt en nyorientering i velfærdstænkningen: fra hjælp og støtte til hjælp til selvhjælp, og fra jobs og arbejdskraftsfremskaffelse med kraftige incitamenter i støttepolitikken og pensionerne til bliven på arbejdsmarkedet. Danmark blev gennem disse reformer det mest digitaliserede samfund i Vesten, men fik ikke løst sine stadigt voksende integrationsproblemer, ligesom uligheden voksede i det ellers så lige danske samfund.