Religion, class, and the postwar development of the Dutch welfare state /Dennis Oude Nijhuis.

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Part I -- History and Theory; 1. The Dutch Welfare Puzzle; The Uneven Trajectory of Dutch Welfare State Development; Unions, Employers, and the Importance of Broad Worker Solidarity; The New Politics of Welfare Reform in the Netherlands; The Organization of the Book; 2. The Politics of Social Solidarity; Welfare Reform and the Logic of Solidarity; Christian Democracy and the Political Foundations of Social Solidarity; Organized Labor and the Question of Inclusiveness; Solidarity in the Age of Retrenchment

Part II -- The Politics of Welfare State Expansion3. Welfare Reform in the Age of Austerity; Immediate Postwar Measures; The First Major Reform: The Introduction of the Unemployment Insurance Act; The Organization of Social Insurance; 4. Welfare State Expansion and the Confessional Preoccupation with Personal Responsibility and Self-Help; Slow Progress on Most Fronts; The First Landmark Act: The Introduction of the General Old Age Act; 5. Completing the Social Insurance System; The Confessional Turnabout and the Introduction of the General Assistance Act

Health Insurance Reform and the Limits of SolidarityImproving the Generosity of Unemployment Insurance Protection; Equal Opportunity and the Introduction of the Act on Disability Insurance; 6. Catering to the Low Paid; The General Old Age Act and the Introduction of the Social Minimum; Towards a Truly Inclusive Welfare System: The Introduction of the Net-Net Link; The Rapid Expansion of Social Care and Social Housing Programs; Part III -- The Politics of Retrenchment; 7. The Emergence of Welfare Without Work; The Dutch Disability Insurance Program and Its Use for Redundancy Purposes

Dealing with the Return of Long-Term UnemploymentLabor Redistribution and the Introduction of Industrial Early Retirement Schemes; 8. Tackling the Inactivity Crisis; The Struggle Over Retrenchment; Towards a More Coherent Retrenchment Agenda; The 1987 Reform of the Social Insurance System; 9. Towards an Active Welfare State; Tackling the Disability Insurance Crisis; The Long Road Towards Administrative Social Insurance Reform; The Purple Government's Work Strategy; 10. Population Ageing and the Need for Further Reform; The Reform Agenda of the Second Balkenende Government

The 2005 Overhaul of the Health Insurance SystemOld-Age Provision and the Challenge of Population Ageing; The Changing Landscape of Social Welfare Provision; Part IV -- Conclusion; 11. The Political Determinants of Solidaristic Reform; Reconsidering the Uneven Trajectory of Dutch Welfare State Development; The Future of the Dutch Welfare State; Bibliography; Index; List of Figures and Tables; Figure 7.1 Labor force participation rate of men aged 55 to 64 in various countries (in percent) from 1965 to 2000

Includes bibliographies and index.

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