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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe detail analysis it offers about the interaction between the four sets of factors-ideas, socioeconomic structural factors, policy legacies, and actors' positions and coalitions-will be a great help for the policy advisors, who move between government and academia, of both developed and developing countries. * Abhishek, Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Structural Constraints, Institutional Legacies, and the Politics of Social Investment across World Regions Silja Häusermann, Julian L. Garritzmann, Bruno Palier Part I: Western Europe and North America 2. Legacies of Universalism: Origins and Persistence of the Broad Political Support for Inclusive Social Investment in Scandinavia Alexander Horn, Kees van Kersbergen 3. Loud, Noisy, or Quiet Politics? The Role of Public Opinion, Parties, and Interest Groups in Social Investment Reforms in Western Europe Marius R. Busemeyer, Julian L. Garritzmann 4. The Partisan Politics of Family and Labor Market Policy Reforms in Southern Europe Reto Bürgisser 5. Reforming without Investing: Explaining Non-social Investment Strategies in Italy Stefano Ronchi, Patrik Vesan 6. The Politics of Early Years and Family Policy Investments in North America Susan Prentice, Linda White Part II: Central and Eastern Europe 7. "Nation (Re)building through Social Investment? The Baltic Reform Trajectories" Anu Toots, Triin Lauri 8. Explaining the Weakness of Social Investment Policies in the Visegrád Countries: The Cases of Childcare and Active Labor Market Policies Dorota Szelewa, Michal Polakowski 9. Explaining the Contrasting Welfare Trajectories of the Baltic and Visegrád Countries: A Growth-Strategy Perspective Sonja Avlija%s Part III: North East Asia 10. The Politicization of Social Investment in the Media and Legislature in North East Asia Jaemin Shim 11. An Increasing but Diverse Support for Social investment: Public Opinion on Social Investment in the North East Asian Welfare Systems Ijin Hong, Chung-Yang Yeh, Jieun Lee, Jen-Der Lue 12. The Quiet Diffusion of Social Investment in Japan: Toward Stratification Mari Miura, Eriko Hamada 13. Politics of Social Investment in Post-industrial South Korea Sophia Seung-yoon Lee, Yeon-Myung Kim Part IV: Latin America 14. The Politicization of Social Investment in Latin America J. Salvador Peralta 15. Social Policy for Institutional Change: Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru Jane Jenson, Nora Nagels 16. The Politics of Conditionality in Latin America's Cash Transfer Reforms Cecilia Rossel, Florencia Antía, Pilar Manzi 17. How Democracies Transform their Welfare States: The Reform Trajectories and Political Coalitions of Inclusive, Stratified, and Targeted Social Investment Strategies Around the World Bruno Palier, Julian L. Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Francesco Fioritto
