The Danish Welfare State analyzes a broad range of areas, such as globalization, labor marked, family life, health and social exclusion, the book demonstrates that life in a modern welfare state is changing rapidly, creating both challenges and possibilities for future management.

Auteur

Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Morten Frederiksen is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Jørgen Elm Larsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Contenu

Is Risk Transforming the Danish Welfare State?; Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Morten Frederiksen and Jørgen Elm Larsen PART I 2. Denmark in an International Perspective; Peter Abrahamson 3. Social Investments as Risk Management; Jon Kvist 4. Employment Relations, Flexicurity and Risk: Explaining the Risk Profile of the Danish Flexicurity Model; Carsten Strøby Jensen 5. Precarity and Public Risk Management: Trends in Denmark Across Four Decades; Stefan B. Andrade 6. Towards a New Culture of Blame?; Morten Frederiksen PART II 7. When Family Life is Risky Business- Immigrant Divorce in the Women-Friendly Welfare State; Mai Heide Ottosen and Anika Liversage 8. The Risky Business of Educational Choice of Meritocratic Society; Kristian Karlson and Anders Holm 9. Health in a Risk Perspective: The Case of Overweight; Nanna Mik-Meyer 10. Failing Ageing? Risk Management in the Active Ageing Society; Tine Rostgaard PART III 11. Controlling Young People through Treatment and Punishment; Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson 12. Alcohol and Risk Management in a Welfare State; Margaretha Järvinen 13. The Tough and the Brittle: Calculating and Managing the Risk of Refugees; Katrine Syppli Kohl 14. Cash Benefit Recipients - Vulnerable or villains?; Dorte Caswell, Jørgen Elm Larsen and Stella Mia Sieling-Monas 15. Risk Dynamics and Risk Management in the Danish Welfare State; Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Morten Frederiksen and Jørgen Elm Larsen