Bøger af Christopher Pierson

Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround the history and, still more importantly, the future of welfare in advanced industrialized states. Comprehensively revised and rewritten, the third edition of the book embraces all of the most important theoretical and empirical developments in welfare state studies of recent years. Working within an explicitly comparative framework, the book draws on a wealth of international evidence to survey what are now the most pressing issues surrounding the future of welfare: among them, globalization, demographic change, declining fertility, postindustrialism, and immigration. It draws extensively on the explosion of work on welfare states that has emerged within the North American political science community over the past ten years as well as giving detailed attention to developments with the UK, continental and northern Europe, and beyond. The third edition of Beyond the Welfare State? remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the complex of issues that surround welfare reform. It will be required reading for anyone who wants to come to terms with what is really at stake in arguments about the future of welfare.

COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it doesn't have and created a mountain of public debt. And yet, when the crisis has passed, we will be left with all the old problems of welfare and well-being which we have systematically failed to address over the past 50 years. In this book, Christopher Pierson argues that we need to think quite differently about how we can ensure our collective well-being in the future. To do this, he looks backwards to the welfare state's origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.

I Samtaler med Anthony Giddens har Christopher Pierson med stor viden og den gode interviewers sans for at spørge ind til sagens kerne fået en af vor tids væsentligste samfundsteoretikere til at fortælle om og kommentere den udvikling, han rent forskningsmæssigt har gennemgået frem til i dag.Med præcision og klarhed i formuleringen præsenterer Giddens hovedtemaerne og begreberne i sin samfundsteori og redegør samtidig for de sociologiske forfatterskaber, der har betydet noget for hans egen udvikling.Ud over de syv samtaler bringer bogen fire eksemplarer på tidsskrifts- og avisartikler af Giddens samt en introduktion til hans sociologisk skrevet af Martin O'Brien.

I Samtaler med Anthony Giddens har Christopher Pierson med stor viden og den gode interviewers sans for at spørge ind til sagens kerne fået en af nyere tids væsentligste samfundsteoretikere til at fortælle om og kommentere den udvikling, han forskningsmæssigt har gennemgået af det moderne samfund.Med præcision og klarhed i formuleringen præsenterer Anthony Giddens hovedtemaerne og begreberne i sin samfundsteori og redegør samtidig for de sociologiske forfatterskaber, der har betydet noget for hans egen udvikling.Ud over de syv samtaler bringer bogen fire eksempler på tidsskrifts- og avisartikler af Giddens samt en introduktion til hans sociologi skrevet af Martin O’Brien.Samtaler med Anthony Giddens udkom for første gang på dansk i 2002 og genudgives nu i Hans Reitzels Forlags serie Klassikere.

These interviews of one of the leading social theorists of the contemporary period, conducted shortly after he became Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, cover the full range of his thought since the early 1970s.

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state.

As the twenty--first century dawned, social democratic parties across Europe and beyond found themselves newly, and rather surprisingly, in the ascendant. Britaina s New Labour was only the most spectacular in a whole series of political restorations.