Danish Welfare State

Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Morten Frederiksen is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark.Jørgen Elm Larsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

"Assembling a strong team of social policy experts, the volume offers an impressive, authoritative, and comprehensive examination of how the Danish welfare state addresses social risks across the full array of policy domains. Relying on comparative analysis, the book manages with success to convey the model's unique and internationally celebrated features: its stress on universalism, its social investment approach to risks, its celebrated family support and, not least, its commitment to gender equalization." - Gosta Esping, Andersen Professor of Sociology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain "This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the Danish labor market and social policy. Given that Denmark's version of flexicurity and social investment policies have been identified by international organizations, such as the European Union and the OECD, as "best practices," this volume is a must read for all scholars interested in the welfare state." - John Stephens Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA "This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the Danish welfare state, organized around changing conceptions and realities of risk. Written in an engaging fashion, it will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in understanding how policymakers in the Nordic region have responded to evolving economic, demographic, and political challenges." - Kent Weaver, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Comparative Government Field Chair, Georgetown University, USA "The Danish Welfare State contributes a refreshing perspective to debates of social policy in a risk society. It covers a wide range of approaches and an impressive number of themes including long term social policy change on the macro level, domain specific developments, and micro-level analysis of policy impact." - Jens Zinn, Associate Professor and Reader in Sociology, the University of Melbourne, Australia

• 1. Is Risk Transforming the Danish Welfare State?; Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Morten Frederiksen and Jorgen Elm Larsen PART I 2. Denmark in an International Perspective; Peter Abrahamson 3. Social Investments as Risk Management; Jon Kvist 4. Employment Relations, Flexicurity and Risk: Explaining the Risk Profile of the Danish Flexicurity Model; Carsten Stroby Jensen 5. Precarity and Public Risk Management: Trends in Denmark Across Four Decades; Stefan B. Andrade 6. Towards a New Culture of Blame?; Morten Frederiksen PART II 7. When Family Life is Risky Business- Immigrant Divorce in the Women-Friendly Welfare State; Mai Heide Ottosen and Anika Liversage 8. The Risky Business of Educational Choice of Meritocratic Society; Kristian Karlson and Anders Holm 9. Health in a Risk Perspective: The Case of Overweight; Nanna Mik-Meyer 10. Failing Ageing? Risk Management in the Active Ageing Society; Tine Rostgaard PART III 11. Controlling Young People through Treatment and Punishment; Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson 12. Alcohol and Risk Management in a Welfare State; Margaretha Jarvinen 13. The Tough and the Brittle: Calculating and Managing the Risk of Refugees; Katrine Syppli Kohl 14. Cash Benefit Recipients - Vulnerable or villains?; Dorte Caswell, Jorgen Elm Larsen and Stella Mia Sieling-Monas 15. Risk Dynamics and Risk Management in the Danish Welfare State; Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, Morten Frederiksen and Jorgen Elm Larsen