The role of the state within social policy

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This study gives an overview of the considerable modifications of the role of the state in the field of social policy since the 1980s. Social measures are more oriented towards economic considerations than in the phase of expansion of the welfare state in the postwar decades. The increased heterogenity of the labour market and in working conditions has increasingly been reproduced within social security. A shift between the three essential factors of social reproduction (state, market, family) is reflected by the shrinking coverage of social security and the increased risk of poverty within the welfare systems. Last, but not least, considerable changes at the procedural level of social regulation have focused on the decentralisation of regulation (collective agreements, enterprise level agreements, and individual agreements).

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