TY - BOOK ID - 32827987 TI - From the manpower revolution to the activation paradigm : explaining institutional continuity and change in an integrating Europe PY - 2011 SN - 9789048513055 9048513057 9789089642523 9089642528 9786613050304 1283050307 9781283050302 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Manpower policy -- Europe. KW - Welfare economics KW - Welfare state. KW - State, Welfare KW - Economic policy KW - Public welfare KW - Social policy KW - State, The KW - Economics KW - Manpower policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32827987 AB - This illuminating book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe in three phases: a manpower revolution during the 1960s and 1970s; a phase of international disagreement about the causes of and remedies for unemployment, which triggered a variety of policy responses in the late 1970s and 1980s; and, finally, the emergence of an activation paradigm in the late 1990s, the influence of which continues to reverberate today. J. Timo Weishaupt contends that the evolution of labor market policy is determined not only by historical trajectories or coalitional struggles, but also by policy makers' changing normative and cognitive beliefs. Including case studies of Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, this study will be of value to anyone interested in labor market policy and its governance. ER -