Willibrord De Graaf
Biographic Data
| ID | 210484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willibrord De Graaf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willibrord |
| FAMILY NAME | De Graaf |
| SIGNATURE | DE GRAAF W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Welfare State and the Life Course
The transformation of welfare state arrangements in European countries during the last two decades can not only be described as realizing an activating welfare state, but also as centred on specific life course transitions which are considered as critical. A number of new welfare arrangements have been set up or older ones have been modified taking into account the critical phases of the life course. These new welfare arrangements attribute new r…
La prévention comme mégalomanie
Au Pays-Bas, la prévention a pris - dans les années 70 - une tournure mégalomaniaque. La conjonction des intérêts de l'État et de groupes progressistes a permis de développer une conception de la prévention en termes plus de « changement » qu'en termes d'« adaptation ». Cette coalition entre l'État-providence et les groupes progressistes fut cependant provisoire et limita la portée des tentatives de démocratisation et de participation qui y étaie…
Governance of the activation policies in Europe
Purpose The purpose of this introduction to the special issue is to give an overview of the key aspects of the governance of activation policies as discussed in the existing literature. It explains the focus and contribution of this special issue and provides a brief summary of the main findings in the individual articles. Design/methodology/approach In this special issue the comparative analysis of the key aspects of governance of activation pol…
The Liberal Governance of a Non-Liberal Welfare State? The Case of the Netherlands
In the literature on welfare state regimes, the Netherlands has been characterized as a hybrid welfare regime. According to Esping-Andersen (1999), this is due to its mixture of social democratic and conservative welfare regime characteristics. Esping-Andersen argues that when looking at income protection systems, the Netherlands are social-democratic as its systems are universalist, provide comprehensive coverage and are generous and de-commodif…
The Governance of Active Welfare States
All over Europe, activation or active labour-market policies have become important instruments to promote the transition from welfare to work, that is, to (re)integrate unemployed people dependent on social insurance or social assistance in the labour market. Activation policies, that is programmes and services aimed at promoting the employability and labour-market participation of unemployed people, play a key role in making welfare states more …
The Governance of Active Welfare States in Europe
During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the unemployed are implemented and delivered. This book ana
Toward a Neoliberal Europe
The authors argue that starting from a welfare state, based on specific assumptions regarding generations, gender, and labor markets, two extreme directions of possible development—toward privatization and toward solidarity—are currently being taken. European welfare reforms transfer many services, needs, and responsibilities to the market, examples of a neoliberal tendency. However, there is also a contrasting and striking development toward sol…
Segmented assimilation in the Netherlands? Young migrants and early school leaving
There has been ongoing debate in the Netherlands in recent years about second-generation immigrant youth, a debate fuelled by two, rather persistent phenomena: high school dropout and unemployment among migrant youth. Fear exists that migrant youth will become marginalized. This raises the question to what extent the position of migrant youth can be viewed as manifesting downward mobility, leading to a form of segmented assimilation? This article…
Male Norms and Female Adjustments
European pension systems are in the process of change. A general development is the retrenchment of public schemes. In combination with the aim of individualizing pension entitlements, it is crucial that the pension situation of women, and of mothers in particular, be improved. Some European countries attempt to reduce the gender pension gaps with child care credits. This paper takes a closer look at the French and German systems. Can adjustments…
Policy for the ‘Peak Hour’ of Life
The Dutch government attempts to base its social policy on a life course perspective, and it promotes such a perspective in Europe. This has led to the introduction of a Life Course Saving Scheme (starting in 2006), which aims to enable good management of the ‘peak hour’ of life and to facilitate transitions between and combinations of the activities of working, caring and learning. This important and ambitious policy can be seen as a pioneering …
European Pension Reforms
European pension reforms individualize and partly privatize pension entitlements. As a consequence, state and individual responsibilities require redefinition. Moreover, when individualization is statutorily introduced, equal opportunities need to be guaranteed. However, equal opportunities are a long way from being implemented. The various pension-determining factors (for instance, labor-market participation, wages, care) are still subject to, a…
Pension Reforms in Europe and Life‐course Politics
In recent years, somewhat drastic pension reforms have taken place in all European countries. The pension systems developed in the last century are no longer considered to be suited to the changing demographic constellations in European countries, and the financial sustainability of these systems is under threat. Moreover, the changing political and economic set‐up in European countries is also used to justify reforming the different pension syst…
Shifting the Pension Mix
All European countries are aiming to reform their pension systems in line with two conceptual ideas: firstly, that systems should combine public, occupational and private pensions; secondly, that entitlements should be individualized. The Dutch and the Danish pension systems already consist of these three different pensions with relatively individualized entitlements and in a way form an ideal type of pension system. However, these systems are fa…
The legal management of (social) parenthood
The Dutch adoption law of 1956 enabled Dutch family policy to re-locate some children from an ‘immoral’ life with their unmarried mother to a ‘normal’ family life. However, since the normalization and social acceptance of ‘families with a difference’ in the 1980s, the supply of the children of Dutch nationals for adoption has fallen. Alongside this, there has remained a consistent demand from childless couples to adopt. This helps to explain a ri…
Psychology as a Liberating Device
European Pension Reforms
European pension reforms individualize and partly privatize pension entitlements. As a consequence, state and individual responsibilities require redefinition. Moreover, when individualization is statutorily introduced, equal opportunities need to be guaranteed. However, equal opportunities are a long way from being implemented. The various pension-determining factors (for instance, labor-market participation, wages, care) are still subject to, a…
Governance of the activation policies in Europe
Purpose The purpose of this introduction to the special issue is to give an overview of the key aspects of the governance of activation policies as discussed in the existing literature. It explains the focus and contribution of this special issue and provides a brief summary of the main findings in the individual articles. Design/methodology/approach In this special issue the comparative analysis of the key aspects of governance of activation pol…
Segmented assimilation in the Netherlands? Young migrants and early school leaving
There has been ongoing debate in the Netherlands in recent years about second-generation immigrant youth, a debate fuelled by two, rather persistent phenomena: high school dropout and unemployment among migrant youth. Fear exists that migrant youth will become marginalized. This raises the question to what extent the position of migrant youth can be viewed as manifesting downward mobility, leading to a form of segmented assimilation? This article…
Male Norms and Female Adjustments
European pension systems are in the process of change. A general development is the retrenchment of public schemes. In combination with the aim of individualizing pension entitlements, it is crucial that the pension situation of women, and of mothers in particular, be improved. Some European countries attempt to reduce the gender pension gaps with child care credits. This paper takes a closer look at the French and German systems. Can adjustments…
Shifting the Pension Mix
All European countries are aiming to reform their pension systems in line with two conceptual ideas: firstly, that systems should combine public, occupational and private pensions; secondly, that entitlements should be individualized. The Dutch and the Danish pension systems already consist of these three different pensions with relatively individualized entitlements and in a way form an ideal type of pension system. However, these systems are fa…
Policy for the ‘Peak Hour’ of Life
The Dutch government attempts to base its social policy on a life course perspective, and it promotes such a perspective in Europe. This has led to the introduction of a Life Course Saving Scheme (starting in 2006), which aims to enable good management of the ‘peak hour’ of life and to facilitate transitions between and combinations of the activities of working, caring and learning. This important and ambitious policy can be seen as a pioneering …
The Welfare State and the Life Course
The transformation of welfare state arrangements in European countries during the last two decades can not only be described as realizing an activating welfare state, but also as centred on specific life course transitions which are considered as critical. A number of new welfare arrangements have been set up or older ones have been modified taking into account the critical phases of the life course. These new welfare arrangements attribute new r…
Toward a Neoliberal Europe
The authors argue that starting from a welfare state, based on specific assumptions regarding generations, gender, and labor markets, two extreme directions of possible development—toward privatization and toward solidarity—are currently being taken. European welfare reforms transfer many services, needs, and responsibilities to the market, examples of a neoliberal tendency. However, there is also a contrasting and striking development toward sol…
Pension Reforms in Europe and Life‐course Politics
In recent years, somewhat drastic pension reforms have taken place in all European countries. The pension systems developed in the last century are no longer considered to be suited to the changing demographic constellations in European countries, and the financial sustainability of these systems is under threat. Moreover, the changing political and economic set‐up in European countries is also used to justify reforming the different pension syst…
Psychology as a Liberating Device
The legal management of (social) parenthood
The Dutch adoption law of 1956 enabled Dutch family policy to re-locate some children from an ‘immoral’ life with their unmarried mother to a ‘normal’ family life. However, since the normalization and social acceptance of ‘families with a difference’ in the 1980s, the supply of the children of Dutch nationals for adoption has fallen. Alongside this, there has remained a consistent demand from childless couples to adopt. This helps to explain a ri…
Shifting the Pension Mix
All European countries are aiming to reform their pension systems in line with two conceptual ideas: firstly, that systems should combine public, occupational and private pensions; secondly, that entitlements should be individualized. The Dutch and the Danish pension systems already consist of these three different pensions with relatively individualized entitlements and in a way form an ideal type of pension system. However, these systems are fa…
Male Norms and Female Adjustments
European pension systems are in the process of change. A general development is the retrenchment of public schemes. In combination with the aim of individualizing pension entitlements, it is crucial that the pension situation of women, and of mothers in particular, be improved. Some European countries attempt to reduce the gender pension gaps with child care credits. This paper takes a closer look at the French and German systems. Can adjustments…
Policy for the ‘Peak Hour’ of Life
The Dutch government attempts to base its social policy on a life course perspective, and it promotes such a perspective in Europe. This has led to the introduction of a Life Course Saving Scheme (starting in 2006), which aims to enable good management of the ‘peak hour’ of life and to facilitate transitions between and combinations of the activities of working, caring and learning. This important and ambitious policy can be seen as a pioneering …
European Pension Reforms
European pension reforms individualize and partly privatize pension entitlements. As a consequence, state and individual responsibilities require redefinition. Moreover, when individualization is statutorily introduced, equal opportunities need to be guaranteed. However, equal opportunities are a long way from being implemented. The various pension-determining factors (for instance, labor-market participation, wages, care) are still subject to, a…
Pension Reforms in Europe and Life‐course Politics
In recent years, somewhat drastic pension reforms have taken place in all European countries. The pension systems developed in the last century are no longer considered to be suited to the changing demographic constellations in European countries, and the financial sustainability of these systems is under threat. Moreover, the changing political and economic set‐up in European countries is also used to justify reforming the different pension syst…
Toward a Neoliberal Europe
The authors argue that starting from a welfare state, based on specific assumptions regarding generations, gender, and labor markets, two extreme directions of possible development—toward privatization and toward solidarity—are currently being taken. European welfare reforms transfer many services, needs, and responsibilities to the market, examples of a neoliberal tendency. However, there is also a contrasting and striking development toward sol…
Segmented assimilation in the Netherlands? Young migrants and early school leaving
There has been ongoing debate in the Netherlands in recent years about second-generation immigrant youth, a debate fuelled by two, rather persistent phenomena: high school dropout and unemployment among migrant youth. Fear exists that migrant youth will become marginalized. This raises the question to what extent the position of migrant youth can be viewed as manifesting downward mobility, leading to a form of segmented assimilation? This article…
The Liberal Governance of a Non-Liberal Welfare State? The Case of the Netherlands
In the literature on welfare state regimes, the Netherlands has been characterized as a hybrid welfare regime. According to Esping-Andersen (1999), this is due to its mixture of social democratic and conservative welfare regime characteristics. Esping-Andersen argues that when looking at income protection systems, the Netherlands are social-democratic as its systems are universalist, provide comprehensive coverage and are generous and de-commodif…
The Governance of Active Welfare States
All over Europe, activation or active labour-market policies have become important instruments to promote the transition from welfare to work, that is, to (re)integrate unemployed people dependent on social insurance or social assistance in the labour market. Activation policies, that is programmes and services aimed at promoting the employability and labour-market participation of unemployed people, play a key role in making welfare states more …
The Governance of Active Welfare States in Europe
During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the unemployed are implemented and delivered. This book ana
Governance of the activation policies in Europe
Purpose The purpose of this introduction to the special issue is to give an overview of the key aspects of the governance of activation policies as discussed in the existing literature. It explains the focus and contribution of this special issue and provides a brief summary of the main findings in the individual articles. Design/methodology/approach In this special issue the comparative analysis of the key aspects of governance of activation pol…
La prévention comme mégalomanie
Au Pays-Bas, la prévention a pris - dans les années 70 - une tournure mégalomaniaque. La conjonction des intérêts de l'État et de groupes progressistes a permis de développer une conception de la prévention en termes plus de « changement » qu'en termes d'« adaptation ». Cette coalition entre l'État-providence et les groupes progressistes fut cependant provisoire et limita la portée des tentatives de démocratisation et de participation qui y étaie…
The Welfare State and the Life Course
The transformation of welfare state arrangements in European countries during the last two decades can not only be described as realizing an activating welfare state, but also as centred on specific life course transitions which are considered as critical. A number of new welfare arrangements have been set up or older ones have been modified taking into account the critical phases of the life course. These new welfare arrangements attribute new r…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Market economy (6 works) · Welfare (6 works) · Welfare state (6 works)