REFRAMING GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY
Social investment for sustainable and inclusive growth
Edited by Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth
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Contents
| Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth |
| Anton Hemerijck |
| Sarah Cook |
| Huck-ju Kwon |
| Stephan Klasen |
| Gnther Schmid |
| Giuliano Bonoli |
| Marius R. Busemeyer |
| Jon Kvist |
| Guillem Lpez-Casasnovas and Laia Maynou |
| James Midgley |
| Jane Jenson |
| Tim Jackson and Robin Webster |
| Paul Smyth and Christopher Deeming |
List of figures
List of boxes and tables
Boxes
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to staff at Policy Press for their help with this volume, especially Emily Mew and Laura Vickers.
Notes on contributors
Giuliano Bonoli is Professor of Social Policy at the Swiss Graduate School for Public Administration at the University of Lausanne. His work has focused on pension reform, labour market and family policies, with particular attention paid to the politics of welfare state transformation. He has published some 50 articles and chapters in edited books, as well as a few books. Among his key publications is The origins of active social policy: active labour market policy and childcare in a comparative perspective (2013, Oxford University Press).
Marius R. Busemeyer is a Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His research focuses on comparative political economy and welfare state research, education and social policy, public spending, theories of institutional change and, more recently, public opinion on the welfare state. Busemeyer studied political science, economics, public administration and public law at University of Heidelberg and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Heidelberg. He worked as a senior researcher with Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and was a postdoc visiting fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard before coming to Konstanz. His publications include a book on Skills and Inequality (Cambridge University Press, Winner of the 2015 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research), an edited volume (with Christine Trampusch) on The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation (Oxford University Press) as well as a large number of articles in leading journals of the discipline.
Sarah Cook is the Director of UNICEFs Innocenti Research Centre. She was Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) from 20092015 and previously a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies as well as working for the Ford Foundation in China. Her research has focused on Chinas social and economic transformations and more broadly on social policy and gender in development contexts.
Christopher Deeming is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Research interests include inclusive growth and social investment inspired social policy, and comparative social policy. For this work he was supported by a three-year UK Economic and Social Research Council Fellowship ES/K001353/1 and a five-year Chancellors Fellowship from the University of Strathclyde.
Anton Hemerijck is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the European University Institute (EUI) and Centennial Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Trained as an economist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, he took his doctorate from Oxford University in Social Studies in 1993. At the Vrije Universiteit he was Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences between 2009 and 2014 and Professor of Institutional Policy Analysis in the Department of Public Administration and Political Science. Important book publications include A Dutch Miracle with Jelle Visser (Amsterdam University Press, 1997), The Future of Social Europe with Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes (CELTA Press Lisbon, 2000), and Why We Need a New Welfare State with Gosta Esping-Andersen, Duncan Gallie and John Myles (Oxford University Press, 2002). With OUP he published the monograph Changing Welfare States (2013) and most recently the edited volumeThe Uses of Social Investment (2017).
Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the newly-awarded Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). Funded over five years by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), CUSP aims to explore the moral, cultural, social, political and economic dimensions of prosperity on a finite planet. Tim currently also holds an ESRC Professorial Fellowship on Prosperity and Sustainability in the Green Economy (PASSAGE). He has been at the forefront of academic work on sustainability for over two decades and has undertaken numerous advisory roles on the social and economic dimensions of sustainability for business, government, civil society and intergovernmental agencies. Between 2004 and 2011, he was Economics Commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission, where his work culminated in the publication of Prosperity without Growth economics for a finite planet (Routledge, 2009/2016), which received wide acclaim and was subsequently translated into 17 foreign languages. He was awarded the Hillary Laureate for exceptional international leadership in 2016. In addition to his academic work, Tim is an award-winning dramatist with numerous radio writing credits for the BBC.
