2016
DOI: 10.1007/s10663-016-9348-0
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Social investment: A guiding principle for welfare state adjustment after the crisis?

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“…The concept of a Social Investment welfare paradigm has become highly influential in public policy globally, especially in Europe. It implies that spending on welfare is a long-term investment to improve prospects for economic and social participation (Hemerijck, 2013;Leoni, 2015). Policy interventions typical of Social Investment include labor market activation and early years education and care.…”
Section: Understanding Social Investment As a Social Policy Programmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The concept of a Social Investment welfare paradigm has become highly influential in public policy globally, especially in Europe. It implies that spending on welfare is a long-term investment to improve prospects for economic and social participation (Hemerijck, 2013;Leoni, 2015). Policy interventions typical of Social Investment include labor market activation and early years education and care.…”
Section: Understanding Social Investment As a Social Policy Programmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is important, as most Social Investment interventions, especially in the form of “capacitating services” (Hemerijck, ), are delivered and experienced locally. Secondly, while examining changes in social expenditure has a number of advantages (Kuitto, ), we would suggest that testing claims of a paradigmatic shift in welfare policies requires deeper analysis. Such analyses will also help address some of the noted limitations of the macro‐comparative social expenditure approach.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the last contribution to the special issue, Thomas Leoni (2016) reviews the developments of the European welfare states over the last decades and identifies the main challenges national social systems are confronted with. Thereby, he highlights the shift in the risk structure of European societies commonly captured by what is labelled "new social risks" and which had been accommodated only partially and with a high degree of cross-country variation before the outbreak of the Great Recession.…”
Section: Special Issue Papers Editorialmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It also emphasises that investments at different stages of the life-course have implications for stages to come, and depend on previous stages. The last comment is emphasised as a central component to the understanding of social investment in other recent social investment articles as well (Bengtsson, de la Porte, & Jacobsson, 2017;Leoni, 2016). However, the novelty of recent debates about the ideas and content of social investment is yet to be operationalised into measurable variables.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the novelty of recent debates about the ideas and content of social investment is yet to be operationalised into measurable variables. Over time, attempts to measure social investments have relied heavily on expenditure data (Bengtsson et al, 2017;Bonoli, 2009;Kouitto, 2016;Leoni, 2016). And while there are efforts to create more precise variables, the operationalizations often create binary categories of social investment or non-social investment policies.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%