Can the Welfare State as We Know It Survive? A View from the Crisis-Ridden South European Periphery

Maria Petmesidou and Ana M. Guillén

South European Society and Politics, 2014, vol. 19, issue 3, 295-307

Abstract: South European countries have been hit hardest and longest by the post-2008 economic crisis. This has brought their welfare states under acute strain. Unmet need has sharply increased while significant welfare reforms and (more or less) deep cuts and changes in social spending have been prominent in the repertoire of the crisis management solutions implemented by the governments (under European Union constraints and the strict rescue-deal requirements for Greece and Portugal). This introduction briefly reviews reform trends prior to and during the crisis in order to highlight convergent and divergent paths among the four countries and outline the major questions addressed by the contributions to this volume.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.950369

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