Special Issue: Social Welfare and the Ethics of Austerity in Europe: Justice, Ideology and Equality

Contents of this Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies are:

+Social Welfare and the Ethics of Austerity in Europe: Justice, Ideology and Equality
Jan Windebank & Adam Whitworth

+Welfare-to-Work Reform, Power and Inequality: From Governance to Governmentalities
Adam Whitworth & Elle Carter

+The Age of Austerity: Contesting the Ethical Basis and Financial Sustainability of Welfare Reform in Europe
Daniel Edmiston

+Ireland: Celtic Tiger in Austerity—Explaining Irish Path Dependency
Mary P. Murphy

+The Rights and Responsibilities of Working-Age Sick and Disabled Benefit Claimants in Austerity Europe
Dan Heap

+Public Resources Retrenchment and Social Welfare Innovation in Italy: Welfare Cultures and the Subsidiarity Principle in Times of Crisis
Rosangela Lodigiani & Luca Pesenti

+Resilience or Resistance? Time Banking in the Age of Austerity
Lee Gregory

+‘Welfare States’ and Social Policies in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR: Where Informality Fits In?
Abel Polese, Jeremy Morris, Borbála Kovács & Ida Harboe