Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables

pp v-vi

List of figures

pp vii-vii

List of acronyms

pp viii-ix

Notes on contributors

pp x-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

One - Beyond the welfare state as we knew it?

pp 1-30

Part I - Towards a new social policy paradigm

pp 31-32

Two - Two or three waves of welfare state transformation?

pp 33-60

Three - Redesigning citizenship regimes after neoliberalism: moving towards social investment

pp 61-88

Part II - Mapping the development of social investment policies

pp 89-90

Four - Towards social investment? Patterns of public policy in the OECD world

pp 91-116

Five - Social investment or recommodification? Assessing the employment policies of the EU member states

pp 117-150

Part III - Assessing the social investment policies

pp 151-152

Six - Promoting social investment through work–family policies: which nations do it and why?

pp 153-180

Seven - Active labour market policy and social investment: a changing relationship

pp 181-204

Eight - Do social investment policies produce more and better jobs?

pp 205-234

Nine - Social investment in the globalising learning economy: a European perspective

pp 235-258

Part IV - Meeting the challenges ahead?

pp 259-260

Ten - Social investment in the ageing populations of Europe

pp 261-284

Eleven - Aftershock: the post-crisis social investment welfare state in Europe

pp 285-308

Twelve - Climate policy and the social investment approach: towards a European model for sustainable development

pp 309-332

Thirteen - From the Lisbon Strategy to EUROPE 2020

pp 333-352

Fourteen - Social investment: a paradigm in search of a new economic model and political mobilisation

pp 353-376

Index

pp 377-386