GLOBALISATION VERSUS THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL? DECONSTRUCTING THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN GLOBALISATION AND THE WELFARE STATE

• Authors: Vobruba G.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Both the economic mainstream and the public debate address globalisation and welfare states as strictly contradicting one other. In contrast to this view the article points out that there exists a globalisation dilemma: globalisation both endangers and requires the welfare state. How can this dilemma be solved? This question leads to an assessment of the degree to which globalisation in fact undermines the welfare state and to the question of what strategies for social policy might alleviate the social costs of globalisation, hence absorbing the opposition to it.

Keywords

EN

GLOBALISATION AND WELFARE

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 261-276
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vobruba G.

• G. Vobruba, Institute of Sociology, University of Leipzig, Beethovenstrasse 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA03086336