članek predstavlja dosedanja teoretiziranja družbenih vidikov staranja socialne gerontologije in pomen najnovejšega spoznavnega težišča, raznovrstnosti staranja, za razumevanje neenakosti ...starih ljudi. v pregledu literature vrednotimo razumevanje raznolikosti starih ljudi različnih družboslovnih intelektualnih tradicij z vidika družbene neenakosti v modernih državah blaginje, ki so na izzive staranja pre- bivalstva v zadnjem obdobju začele odgovarjati s politiko aktivnega staranja. kritika te politike je pojasnjevanje makroravni izkušnje staranja kritične struje, saj izpostavlja, da so različnosti starih ljudi vezane na vprašanja družbene pravičnosti. Ugotavljamo, da kritična struja v postindustrijskih zahodnih družbah staranja 21. stoletja s svojimi teoretiziranji prispeva k temu,da zaloga vednosti gerontologije prispeva h krepitvi moči te družbene skupine in bolj kakovostni starosti vseh, tudi marginalnih družbenih skupin.
After Austerity Taylor-Gooby, Peter; Leruth, Benjamin; Chung, Heejung
08/2017
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European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalisation, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented ...levels of immigration have imposed additional pressures. This book examines welfare state transformations across a representative range of European countries and at the EU level, and considers likely new directions in social policy. It reviews the dominant neo-liberal austerity response and discusses social investment, fightback, welfare chauvinism and protectionism. It argues that the class solidarities and cleavages that shaped the development of welfare states are no longer powerful. Tensions surrounding divisions between old and young, women and men, immigrants and denizens, and the winners in a new more competitive world and those who feel left behind are becoming steadily more important. European countries have entered a period of greater political instability and this is reflected in policy directions. Austerity predominates nearly everywhere, but patterns of social investment, protectionism, neo-Keynesian intervention and fightback vary between countries. We identify areas of convergence and difference in European welfare state futures.
Are the world?s oldest democracies failing? In this extraordinary collection, top scholars in political science, sociology, philosophy and economics, discuss a radical shift towards inequality in an ...age of mass capital globalization.
How can mainstream models and classifications be used in analyzing welfare states and gender? What sorts of modifications to traditional theory are required? These and other questions are addressed ...in this book - the first to synthesize the insights of feminist and mainstream research in examining the impact of gender on welfare state analysis and outcomes. The text also highlights the effect of welfare state policies on women and men. The international and interdisciplinary contributors approach the subject on two levels. First, they test the applicability of mainstream frameworks to new areas in analyzing gender. Second, they highlight possible reconceptualizations and innovative frameworks designed to provide gender- based analyses. These approaches are combined with a strong comparative component, focusing on a cross-section of countries of major interest in welfare state research.
A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development ...of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies. His considered conclusion is that American institutions have not given agricultural interest groups any particular advantages in the policy process, in part because opposing lobbies also enjoy access to policymakers. In fact, the high degree of conflict and pluralism maintained by American institutions made possible substantial retrenchment of the agricultural welfare state during the 1980s and 1990s. In Japan and France--two countries with markedly different institutional characters than the United States-- powerful agricultural interests and a historically close relationship between farmers, bureaucrats, and politicians continue to preclude a roll-back of farm subsidies.This well-crafted study not only puts a new spin on agricultural policy, but also makes a strong case for the broader claim that the relatively decentralized American political system is actually less prone to capture and rule by subgovernments than the more centralized political systems found in France and Japan. Sheingate's historical, comparative approach also demonstrates, in a widely useful way, how past institutional developments shape current policies and options.
