Peter Abrahamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 263169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Abrahamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Abrahamson |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAMSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Welfare and Families in Europe
Originally published in 2005. The primary focus of this work is the relationship between family, work and the welfare system. Focusing on Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, the study draws comparisons between societies which represent different types of welfare mix between state, market and civil society. Three important issues in the transformation of the European welfare state systems are considered: The conditions for soc…
End of an Era? China's One‐Child Policy and its Unintended Consequences
At the end of 2015, China put an end to the one‐child policy ( OCP ), thereby terminating the largest family planning program in human history. For nearly four decades it had shaped relations between generations and between men and women to an extent never before seen. Today, China struggles with the unintended consequences of the OCP . It has resulted in the so‐called 4‐2‐1 family structure, in which the only children had four grandparents and t…
East Asian welfare regime: Obsolete ideal-type or diversified reality
The paper asks if East Asian welfare regimes are still productivist and Confucian? And, have they developed public care policies? The literature is split on the first question but (mostly) confirmative on the second. Care has to a large, but insufficient extent, been rolled out in the region. Political science studies tend to conclude that the region has left the old legacies behind and are now welfare states comparable to European states includi…
Gender and Welfare Regimes Revised - Connecting Danish and Chinese Perspectives
China and Denmark could hardly be more different cases for comparison: a huge developing one-party state set against a small post-industrial plural state. Despite these significant and categorical differences, however, both states are faced with similar challenges when it comes to changing demographic patterns, with more elderly persons in need of both care and support, coupled with smaller working-age populations to deliver that care and support…
The Welfare Modelling Business Revisited: The Case of East Asian Welfare Regimes
European Welfare States Beyond Neoliberalism: Toward the Social Investment State
After the golden age of welfare state development in Europe, the glorious thirty years from 1945 to 1974, perceptions changed and the welfare state was interpreted to be in crisis. One solution to the crisis was a neo-liberal approach emphasizing privatization and retrenchment. And at least rhetorically this perspective gained ground during the 1980s in Northwestern Europe and during the 1990s in the newly emerging market economies of Central and…
Continuity and consensus: Governing families in Denmark
In Danish family policy, changes initiated by the present conservative-liberal government differ little from those proposed by the opposition. Recent changes are minor, but significant ones occurred in the 1960s, when childcare was universalized, and in the 1980s, when parental leave substituted maternal leave. These changes can be explained as adjustments to post-industrial conditions within a political culture relying on class compromises and a…
Den skandinaviske velfærdsmodel i historisk og sociologisk belysning: Ideal, eksportartikel eller unik
Free Trade and Social Citizenship: Prospects and Possibilities of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta-DR)
The article takes as its starting point the proliferation of regional free trade agreements, and the question is posed: whether increased economic integration in Central America may `spill over' in enhanced social citizenship rights? The question is triggered by the signing in 2004 of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). The article explores the arguments concerning the development of CAFTA-DR and social citizenship, exemplified …
Reconciliation of work and family life in Europe: A case study of Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom
European Union institutions as well as member states are embracing welfare policies that support reconciliation of work and family life as a means of solving problems of low fertility and gender inequality, and they do so unanimously within a welfare mix approach. Hence, viewing the social policy rhetoric, everything points to a convergence of European welfare models towards a mixed economy of welfare. However, analysing the everyday experiences …
Velfærdssamfundet overladt til regnedrenge
Coping with Urban Poverty: Changing Citizenship in Europe
The so‐called European Social Model consists of four distinctly different poverty regimes with diverse consequences for men and women. According to current political rhetoric these policy regimes are changing significantly everywhere, hence transforming the opportunities and challenges for men and women. This article discusses whether, and to what extent, the perceived changes have affected low‐income mothers in European urban settings. The data …
La fin du modèle scandinave ? La réforme de la protection sociale dans les pays nordiques
Les États providence scandinaves ont pendant de nombreuses années été considérés comme l'incarnation du modèle institutionnel redistributif de politique sociale élaboré par Richard Titmuss. Ceci a été remis en cause par les réformes qui sont intervenues ces dernières années. L'objet de cet article est d'évaluer si les changements importants récemment introduits dans la couverture sociale constituent une simple modification du modèle ou si les Éta…
Researching Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe
The Dutch and Danish Miracles Revisited: A Critical Discussion of Activation Policies in Two Small Welfare States
Denmark and the Netherlands are usually considered to belong to two different families of welfare states: the Scandinavian and the Continental model respectively. Yet, in both states active labour market policies, or activation, have increased during the 1990s and are currently prominent. Both in Denmark and in the Netherlands activation has been viewed as an important reason for the low unemployment rates which both states have experienced since…
Proizvodnja modela socijalne politike
Rad zapocinje identifikacijom bitnog porasta uporabe tipologija socijalnih država unutar komparativnih studija. To se razvilo do stupnja u kojem mnogi autori smatraju samorazumljivim da se svijet sastoji od ogranicenog broja dobro definiranih socijalnih režima. Ova je rasprava zapocela 1990. godine i ocekuje se njen nastavak kao važne dimenzije socijalno-politickih istraživanja daleko u sljedecem mileniju. Pokazuje se da ideja svrstavanja socijal…
The Welfare Modelling Business
The paper starts out by identifying a substantial increase in the use of welfare state typologies within comparative studies. This has developed to a degree where many authors take it for granted that the world consists of a limited number of well‐defined welfare regimes. This discussion took off in 1990 and it is expected to continue as an important dimension of welfare and social policy research long into the next millennium. It is shown that t…
Welfare and Poverty in the Europe of the 1990S: Social Progress or Social Dumping?
Social policy in Europe is changing fundamentally from a system of public (government) support to a welfare pluralism, or a “welfare mix” supported by the private and public sectors and by voluntary agencies. The overall tendencies are privatization, decentralization, and debureaucratization. With the prospect of a single-market economy within the European Communities in 1993, the fight against poverty in member nations may lead to “social dumpin…
Unemployment and Poverty in the Contemporary Welfare States
All over Western Europe unemployment has for a considerable number of years been at a very high level, thus presenting social policy with increasing difficulties in securing satisfactory living conditions tor the long-term unem ployed Austerity programmes have generally reduced public financial trans fers to the unemployed. while at the same time the average duration of unemployment has increased sharply Therefore. the long-term unemployed experi…
The Welfare Modelling Business
The paper starts out by identifying a substantial increase in the use of welfare state typologies within comparative studies. This has developed to a degree where many authors take it for granted that the world consists of a limited number of well‐defined welfare regimes. This discussion took off in 1990 and it is expected to continue as an important dimension of welfare and social policy research long into the next millennium. It is shown that t…
East Asian welfare regime: Obsolete ideal-type or diversified reality
The paper asks if East Asian welfare regimes are still productivist and Confucian? And, have they developed public care policies? The literature is split on the first question but (mostly) confirmative on the second. Care has to a large, but insufficient extent, been rolled out in the region. Political science studies tend to conclude that the region has left the old legacies behind and are now welfare states comparable to European states includi…
Continuity and consensus: Governing families in Denmark
In Danish family policy, changes initiated by the present conservative-liberal government differ little from those proposed by the opposition. Recent changes are minor, but significant ones occurred in the 1960s, when childcare was universalized, and in the 1980s, when parental leave substituted maternal leave. These changes can be explained as adjustments to post-industrial conditions within a political culture relying on class compromises and a…
The Dutch and Danish Miracles Revisited: A Critical Discussion of Activation Policies in Two Small Welfare States
Denmark and the Netherlands are usually considered to belong to two different families of welfare states: the Scandinavian and the Continental model respectively. Yet, in both states active labour market policies, or activation, have increased during the 1990s and are currently prominent. Both in Denmark and in the Netherlands activation has been viewed as an important reason for the low unemployment rates which both states have experienced since…
Free Trade and Social Citizenship: Prospects and Possibilities of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta-DR)
The article takes as its starting point the proliferation of regional free trade agreements, and the question is posed: whether increased economic integration in Central America may `spill over' in enhanced social citizenship rights? The question is triggered by the signing in 2004 of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). The article explores the arguments concerning the development of CAFTA-DR and social citizenship, exemplified …
End of an Era? China's One‐Child Policy and its Unintended Consequences
At the end of 2015, China put an end to the one‐child policy ( OCP ), thereby terminating the largest family planning program in human history. For nearly four decades it had shaped relations between generations and between men and women to an extent never before seen. Today, China struggles with the unintended consequences of the OCP . It has resulted in the so‐called 4‐2‐1 family structure, in which the only children had four grandparents and t…
Reconciliation of work and family life in Europe: A case study of Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom
European Union institutions as well as member states are embracing welfare policies that support reconciliation of work and family life as a means of solving problems of low fertility and gender inequality, and they do so unanimously within a welfare mix approach. Hence, viewing the social policy rhetoric, everything points to a convergence of European welfare models towards a mixed economy of welfare. However, analysing the everyday experiences …
Unemployment and Poverty in the Contemporary Welfare States
All over Western Europe unemployment has for a considerable number of years been at a very high level, thus presenting social policy with increasing difficulties in securing satisfactory living conditions tor the long-term unem ployed Austerity programmes have generally reduced public financial trans fers to the unemployed. while at the same time the average duration of unemployment has increased sharply Therefore. the long-term unemployed experi…
Gender and Welfare Regimes Revised - Connecting Danish and Chinese Perspectives
China and Denmark could hardly be more different cases for comparison: a huge developing one-party state set against a small post-industrial plural state. Despite these significant and categorical differences, however, both states are faced with similar challenges when it comes to changing demographic patterns, with more elderly persons in need of both care and support, coupled with smaller working-age populations to deliver that care and support…
Coping with Urban Poverty: Changing Citizenship in Europe
The so‐called European Social Model consists of four distinctly different poverty regimes with diverse consequences for men and women. According to current political rhetoric these policy regimes are changing significantly everywhere, hence transforming the opportunities and challenges for men and women. This article discusses whether, and to what extent, the perceived changes have affected low‐income mothers in European urban settings. The data …
La fin du modèle scandinave ? La réforme de la protection sociale dans les pays nordiques
Les États providence scandinaves ont pendant de nombreuses années été considérés comme l'incarnation du modèle institutionnel redistributif de politique sociale élaboré par Richard Titmuss. Ceci a été remis en cause par les réformes qui sont intervenues ces dernières années. L'objet de cet article est d'évaluer si les changements importants récemment introduits dans la couverture sociale constituent une simple modification du modèle ou si les Éta…
Unemployment and Poverty in the Contemporary Welfare States
All over Western Europe unemployment has for a considerable number of years been at a very high level, thus presenting social policy with increasing difficulties in securing satisfactory living conditions tor the long-term unem ployed Austerity programmes have generally reduced public financial trans fers to the unemployed. while at the same time the average duration of unemployment has increased sharply Therefore. the long-term unemployed experi…
Welfare and Poverty in the Europe of the 1990S: Social Progress or Social Dumping?
Social policy in Europe is changing fundamentally from a system of public (government) support to a welfare pluralism, or a “welfare mix” supported by the private and public sectors and by voluntary agencies. The overall tendencies are privatization, decentralization, and debureaucratization. With the prospect of a single-market economy within the European Communities in 1993, the fight against poverty in member nations may lead to “social dumpin…
The Welfare Modelling Business
The paper starts out by identifying a substantial increase in the use of welfare state typologies within comparative studies. This has developed to a degree where many authors take it for granted that the world consists of a limited number of well‐defined welfare regimes. This discussion took off in 1990 and it is expected to continue as an important dimension of welfare and social policy research long into the next millennium. It is shown that t…
Proizvodnja modela socijalne politike
Rad zapocinje identifikacijom bitnog porasta uporabe tipologija socijalnih država unutar komparativnih studija. To se razvilo do stupnja u kojem mnogi autori smatraju samorazumljivim da se svijet sastoji od ogranicenog broja dobro definiranih socijalnih režima. Ova je rasprava zapocela 1990. godine i ocekuje se njen nastavak kao važne dimenzije socijalno-politickih istraživanja daleko u sljedecem mileniju. Pokazuje se da ideja svrstavanja socijal…
Researching Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe
The Dutch and Danish Miracles Revisited: A Critical Discussion of Activation Policies in Two Small Welfare States
Denmark and the Netherlands are usually considered to belong to two different families of welfare states: the Scandinavian and the Continental model respectively. Yet, in both states active labour market policies, or activation, have increased during the 1990s and are currently prominent. Both in Denmark and in the Netherlands activation has been viewed as an important reason for the low unemployment rates which both states have experienced since…
Velfærdssamfundet overladt til regnedrenge
Coping with Urban Poverty: Changing Citizenship in Europe
The so‐called European Social Model consists of four distinctly different poverty regimes with diverse consequences for men and women. According to current political rhetoric these policy regimes are changing significantly everywhere, hence transforming the opportunities and challenges for men and women. This article discusses whether, and to what extent, the perceived changes have affected low‐income mothers in European urban settings. The data …
La fin du modèle scandinave ? La réforme de la protection sociale dans les pays nordiques
Les États providence scandinaves ont pendant de nombreuses années été considérés comme l'incarnation du modèle institutionnel redistributif de politique sociale élaboré par Richard Titmuss. Ceci a été remis en cause par les réformes qui sont intervenues ces dernières années. L'objet de cet article est d'évaluer si les changements importants récemment introduits dans la couverture sociale constituent une simple modification du modèle ou si les Éta…
Free Trade and Social Citizenship: Prospects and Possibilities of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta-DR)
The article takes as its starting point the proliferation of regional free trade agreements, and the question is posed: whether increased economic integration in Central America may `spill over' in enhanced social citizenship rights? The question is triggered by the signing in 2004 of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). The article explores the arguments concerning the development of CAFTA-DR and social citizenship, exemplified …
Reconciliation of work and family life in Europe: A case study of Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom
European Union institutions as well as member states are embracing welfare policies that support reconciliation of work and family life as a means of solving problems of low fertility and gender inequality, and they do so unanimously within a welfare mix approach. Hence, viewing the social policy rhetoric, everything points to a convergence of European welfare models towards a mixed economy of welfare. However, analysing the everyday experiences …
Den skandinaviske velfærdsmodel i historisk og sociologisk belysning: Ideal, eksportartikel eller unik
European Welfare States Beyond Neoliberalism: Toward the Social Investment State
After the golden age of welfare state development in Europe, the glorious thirty years from 1945 to 1974, perceptions changed and the welfare state was interpreted to be in crisis. One solution to the crisis was a neo-liberal approach emphasizing privatization and retrenchment. And at least rhetorically this perspective gained ground during the 1980s in Northwestern Europe and during the 1990s in the newly emerging market economies of Central and…
Continuity and consensus: Governing families in Denmark
In Danish family policy, changes initiated by the present conservative-liberal government differ little from those proposed by the opposition. Recent changes are minor, but significant ones occurred in the 1960s, when childcare was universalized, and in the 1980s, when parental leave substituted maternal leave. These changes can be explained as adjustments to post-industrial conditions within a political culture relying on class compromises and a…
The Welfare Modelling Business Revisited: The Case of East Asian Welfare Regimes
Gender and Welfare Regimes Revised - Connecting Danish and Chinese Perspectives
China and Denmark could hardly be more different cases for comparison: a huge developing one-party state set against a small post-industrial plural state. Despite these significant and categorical differences, however, both states are faced with similar challenges when it comes to changing demographic patterns, with more elderly persons in need of both care and support, coupled with smaller working-age populations to deliver that care and support…
End of an Era? China's One‐Child Policy and its Unintended Consequences
At the end of 2015, China put an end to the one‐child policy ( OCP ), thereby terminating the largest family planning program in human history. For nearly four decades it had shaped relations between generations and between men and women to an extent never before seen. Today, China struggles with the unintended consequences of the OCP . It has resulted in the so‐called 4‐2‐1 family structure, in which the only children had four grandparents and t…
East Asian welfare regime: Obsolete ideal-type or diversified reality
The paper asks if East Asian welfare regimes are still productivist and Confucian? And, have they developed public care policies? The literature is split on the first question but (mostly) confirmative on the second. Care has to a large, but insufficient extent, been rolled out in the region. Political science studies tend to conclude that the region has left the old legacies behind and are now welfare states comparable to European states includi…
Welfare and Families in Europe
Originally published in 2005. The primary focus of this work is the relationship between family, work and the welfare system. Focusing on Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, the study draws comparisons between societies which represent different types of welfare mix between state, market and civil society. Three important issues in the transformation of the European welfare state systems are considered: The conditions for soc…
Political science (16 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Welfare (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Welfare state (7 works) · Development economics (6 works)