August Oesterle - Equity Choices and Long-Term Care Policies in Europe: Allocating Resources and Burdens in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Allocating resources and burdens in Austria, Italy,
the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

AUGUST STERLE

Department of Social Policy
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing

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Many people have contributed to this book. I am most grateful for their time, their help and their advice. The idea for the study on equity in long-term care was originally born when I was a research fellow at the School of Social Sciences, University of Bath in 1995. Staying there was financially supported by the EU Human Capital and Mobility Programme and the Austrian Science Fund. It did however take some time to really work on the idea. Participation in the 1998/99 programme of the European Forum at the European University Institute in Florence on Recasting the European Welfare State: Options, Constraints, Actors supported by the European Commission (DG V) has given me room to write major parts of this book and to discuss the issues in a unique interdisciplinary and international environment. Thanks are due to Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes, directors of the 1998/99 programme, and the distinguished group of academics I met there who created an intellectually stimulating environment. Staying there was financially supported under the Jean Monnet Fellowship Programme. Brief study visits to the countries covered in this book and a one-month stay at the London School of Economics and Political Science in September 1999 (funded by the EU Training and Mobility of Researchers Programme) have further contributed to the comparative study as have many people supporting me with comments or providing me with specific information such as Marja Pijl, Clare Ungerson and Christiano Gori. In its final stages, work on the book was undertaken at the Department of Social Policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Comments by Christoph Badelt, Head of the Department, Karin Heitzmann, Elizabeth Scharpf and Elisabeth Hammer have been most helpful to omit mistakes and to further improve the book. Many thanks to my colleagues at the Department. You make work a challenging experience but at the same time real pleasure. Thanks are also due to Katherine Hodkinson, my editor at Ashgate Publishing. The accuracy of facts and analysis remain entirely my responsibility.

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