The Quiet Paradigm Revolution of Social Investment

Jonathan Boston and Derek Gill SOCIAL INVESTMENT: A NEW ZEALAND POLICY EXPERIMENT Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University Of Wellington, Wellington: Bridget Williams Books (2017).

“…The term social investment can be traced back to the Swedish socialdemocratic welfare state in the 1930s (Smyth & Deeming, ). Hemerijck () argued that a new policy paradigm had emerged, based on social policy as a productive factor, and moving away from the ‘dominant neoliberal market‐oriented social policy paradigm of the 1980s and 1990s’ (p. 243). Within the book there is minimal reference to the wide body of literature on social investment as social policy, and the editors do not claim to be providing an academic review of the literature.…”

Innovation and Social Investment Programs in Europe

“…The concept of a Social Investment welfare paradigm has become highly influential in public policy globally, especially in Europe. It implies that spending on welfare is a long‐term investment to improve prospects for economic and social participation (Hemerijck, ; ; Leoni, ). Policy interventions typical of Social Investment include labor market activation and early years education and care.…”

“…There is a considerable body of academic literature around the notion of Social Investment as a new welfare paradigm, particularly in relation to advanced European welfare states. Often associated with the work of authors such as Esping-Anderson (1999), Giddens (1998) and Hemerijck (2013), Social Investment is increasingly moving from a theoretical and normative approach to empirical studies of changes in social policy and practice in European countries (Kazepov & Ranci, 2017). However, the extant empirical research is largely macro-comparative analysis of changes in national government expenditure.…”

Gondoskodó állam, aktiváló állam, befektető állam. A foglalkoztatáspolitika és a jóléti modellváltás néhány összefüggése

“…Az elméleti viták a "társadalmi befektetés" modell sajátosságaival és működésével kapcsolatban azonban még nem zárultak le (Hemerijck 2015). A legtöbb esetben még hiányzik a modell újszerűségének, elméleti kereteinek és sajátosságainak tisztázása éppúgy, mint a hatékony működést igazoló empirikus makroadatok sora.…”