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Peter Herrmann Social Policy in Context |
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Social policy is widely accepted as scientific discipline – and this includes that it accepts for itself another meaning of this status, one which is usually not considered: the subject is disciplined, i.e. regimented. One important point is in this context that social policy is focused and thereby forgetting systematic economic determinants and also the historical perspective on its own existence. The present book recalls some fundamental issues – as in the first chapter the partial liberation of human decision making from extramundane powers – and looks as well at topics as they are discussed in contemporary settings as the European Model and empowerment. The volume brings in an insightful way different dimensions together and is a stimulating reading for those who are ready to engage with the complexity of political questions, looking for instruments for an analysis that reaches beyond “yesterday’s solutions for the problems we don’t really know anyway”. CONTENTS Postscript from 2009 as Introduction – A Rather Personal Conclusion Time to Say Good-Bye I. Ruling between God, Government and People Introduction State and Society – The Independent Dependent From Devine to Secular Steering – Shifting the Contradiction The Succession of Rationality Law – Reflecting on Human’s Relationship to Reality Legal Perspectives and the State I Governance – Refining the Social? Legal Perspectives and the State II Outlook II. Locating Shifts of Governing and Governance – Theoretical Background Considerations and Framing Political Case Studies 1. Theory of Government in the Perspective of a Philosophy of Law Introduction State and Society – The Independent Dependent From Devine to Secular Steering – Shifting the Contradiction The Succession of Rationality Law – Reflecting on Human’s Relationship to Reality Legal Perspectives and the State I Governance – Refining the Social? Legal Perspectives and the State II Outlook 2. Governance, New Public Management, Social Quality Development – Perspectives on Contemporary Debates in Policy-Development Point of Departure Three Strands of Debate Strategies of Changing Politics – Governance in the European Union Strategies of Changing Policies – New Public Management and Public-Private-Partnerships Strategies of Changing Focus – The Social Quality Approach Concluding remarks III. European Social Model – Existence, Non-Existence or Biased Direction Introduction – Models and Reality Being Social and Social Being Practice – Appropriation and Appropriateness The Economy and the Social A “European State” The development of European Social Policy Orientations OMC – dual strategy Outlook Postscript IV. European Social Policy – A Different Perspective Introducing Remark The Political-Economic Context Early Programme Initiatives Excursus: The “Irish Coup” From Social Policy to Civil Dialogue The Shift of Amsterdam and the Failure of Lisbon – Disappointed Expectations Socialisation of Services versus Servicialisation of the Social Outlook – Two Steps Back, and One Step Forward V. Social Empowerment – A Matter of Enabling Society to Cope with Personalities Empowerment – Terminological Remarks Dimensions of Empowerment Aspects of an individualist approach to empowerment Aspects of empowerment as a societal matter Social Empowerment – a Different Concept Welfare State and Welfare Society – Challenges for a Global Political Shift VI. Empowerment – processing the processed I.Introduction – Localising Empowerment II. Reflecting Empowerment – The Light of Previous Debates on Social Quality Introduction Approaches to empowerment III. Empowerment – its relevance in European politics III.a. Power as Marketability III.b. Individualism and liberalism III.c. The American Turn of the EU Social Model III.d. The Manageralisation IV. A critical review empowerment as a matter of control over living conditions and life V. Domains and dimensions – developing an analytical tool VI Domains and Indicators – the step to operationalisation VII Conclusions and Challenges Bestel/Order |
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