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One welfare state, two care regimes
— understanding developments in child and elderly care policies in the Netherlands | | Author(s) | Franca van Hooren, Uwe Becker |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Administration, vol 46, no 1, February 2012 |
| Pages | pp 83-107 |
| Source | http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-... |
| Keywords | Children ; Older people ; Social welfare ; Social policy ; Histories ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The different development of child and elderly care in the Netherlands reflects the hybrid character of its welfare system, which until the 1980s featured both social democratic and conservative elements. While public involvement in the provision of care services for older people rapidly increased after 1945, child care remained a family affair well into the 1980s. Under recent neo-liberal influences these trends have been reversed. Public investments in child care have grown exponentially, while several governments have attempted to cut expenses on care services for older people. This article descriptively compares these contrasting processes and puts them into historical and comparative perspective. It is argued that pillarisation has contributed to the comparatively strong hybridisation of the Dutch system of welfare and social care. In addition, different cultures of child and elderly care contributed to different developments in both policy fields. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120904001 A |
| Classmark | SBC: B: TY: TM2: 6A: 76H |
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