Bücher der Reihe Social Welfare Around the World

Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in contemporary welfare states given ageing populations. This groundbreaking book provides detailed case-studies of 11 European states¿ welfare regimes to show how welfare states organize, structure and deliver long-term care, and whether there is a social investment perspective in the delivery of long-term care. The book specifically looks at the development in long-term care for the elderly after the financial crisis, the boundaries between state and civil society in the different approaches to the delivery of care, and assesses the argument that demographic transitions impact and create a cause for economic pressure on welfare states.

This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states.

This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements.Providing a thorough analysis of how deservingness representations are generated in the twenty-first century by focusing on the analysis of discourse and rhetoric of policymakers, reality TV participants, frontline workers and unemployed individuals, it shows that different actors actively participate in constructing representations of deservingness through which variety of political, practical and social implications and objectives are achieved and performed. The book addresses key themes such as:¿ What kinds of rhetorical and discursive tactics can be associated with un/deservingness?¿ How deservingness is accomplished as a speech act?¿ How different actors such as policymakers, reality TV programme participants, frontline workers and individual citizens participate in constructing un/deservingness?¿ What kind of practical implications and consequences deservingness representations have for policy making, frontline work and researchThis book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, social work, sociology, social psychology, political science and media studies.

This book presents a critical account of how citizenship unfolds among socially marginalised groups in democratic welfare states. Legal, political and sociological perspectives are applied to offer an assessment of the extent and depth of citizenship for marginalised groups.