Social policy research in times of crisis

Bent Greve and Thomas Paster

Chapter 18 in Social Policy in Changing European Societies, 2022, pp 279-293 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter discusses how research on welfare state crisis has evolved, influenced by empirical developments as well as theoretical innovations. The chapter identifies four research themes: new social risks, populism and welfare chauvinism, austerity, and social investment. The first three of these four themes deal with dimensions of welfare state crisis: A crisis of benefit adequacy (new social risks), a crisis of political legitimacy of the welfare state (populism and chauvinism), and a crisis of financing (austerity). The last theme, social investment, contrasts with the three sections on welfare state crises. It emerged as a proposal for a policy approach intended to overcome crisis, and thus offered an ideational tool that appears suitable to overcome the legitimacy crisis of the welfare state as well as economic crisis. Future research should focus on how and to which degree a reorientation of social policy towards social investments will take place.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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