Spanish Welfare State in European Context
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Central Government
comparative welfare regimes
Conservative Welfare Regimes
Contributory Pension
Enlarged EU-12
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European Employment Strategy
Family Budget Survey
flexicurity in European welfare systems
gender equality policy
Instituto De La Mujer
labour
labour market reforms
long
Long Term Care Services
Long Term Care Users
Make Welfare Work
market
Minimum Income Programmes
Minimum Pensions
multi-level governance
Multi-level Government
pact
policies
population ageing challenges
protection
Public Pension System
Retirement Pensions
social
social policy analysis
Social Security Pension System
Spanish GDP
Spanish Labour Market
Spanish Pension
Spanish Social Policies
Spanish Welfare State
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toledo
Toledo Pact
Welfare Reform
Work Family Balance Policies
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- ISBN 9781409402930
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Following the death of Franco, Spain underwent a transition to democracy in the mid-1970s. Although a rapid process of modernization occurred, the Spanish welfare state was seen, until fairly recently, as relatively underdeveloped. However, given the progressive Europeanization and expansion of Spanish social policy, questions arise as to whether the Spanish welfare system should still be considered as peripheral to West European welfare states. This volume is divided into three sections. The first section deals with broad trends in the evolution of the Spanish welfare state. To begin with, the consolidation path of social protection policies is explored. Attention is also paid to the process of Europeanization. Furthermore, the analysis explores advances in gender equality policies. In the second section, attention is turned to governance issues, such as collective bargaining, the interplay among levels of government, the welfare mix and public support for social policies. The third and final part of the book addresses five main challenges facing the Spanish welfare state in the 21st century, namely, the need to enhance flexicurity; to achieve a better work-family balance; to coordinate immigration policies with existing social protection; to tackle the persistence of high rates of relative poverty; and to face intense population ageing, both in terms of increasing needs for care and the reform of the pension system.
Ana Marta Guillén is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Margarita León is Lecturer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
