Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States
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DOI: 10.1017/s1474746421000361
Abstract: Growth-dependent welfare states contribute to climate emergency. The ecological economics, degrowth, and sustainable welfare literatures demonstrate that to re-embed Western production and consumption patterns in environmental limits, an encompassing social-ecological transformation would need to be… read more here.
Keywords: welfare states; social policy; sustainable welfare; growth ... See more keywords
Sustainable welfare: Independence between growth and welfare has to go both ways
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DOI: 10.1177/14680181211019153
Abstract: One of the main challenges of sustainable welfare is to design welfare systems that are “growth resilient” or independent of economic growth. When the sustainable welfare literature discusses the relationship between welfare states and economic… read more here.
Keywords: welfare states; economic growth; sustainable welfare; welfare systems ... See more keywords
The Virtuous Circle of Sustainable Welfare as a Transformative Policy Idea
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DOI: 10.3390/su12010391
Abstract: Welfare states are highly dependent on the economic growth paradigm. Especially in social democratic welfare states, growth dependence has historically been accompanied by the notion of a virtuous circle, which ensures that social policy measures… read more here.
Keywords: policy; virtuous circle; policy idea; sustainable welfare ... See more keywords