ID - 4779736 TI - Participation, responsibility and choice : summoning the active citizen in Western European welfare states AU - Newman, Janet AU - Tonkens, Evelina Hendrika PY - 2011 SN - 9789089642752 9089642757 9789048513437 904851343X PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Welfare state KW - Public welfare KW - Social welfare KW - Politics KW - HB 846 Welfare theory - General works KW - Politics and culture KW - Burgerschap / gtt. KW - Verzorgingsstaat / gtt. KW - Citizen participation. KW - History KW - Europe, Western -- Social policy -- Citizen participation. KW - Politics and culture -- Europe -- Citizen participation. KW - Welfare state -- Europe, Western -- History -- 21st century. KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Conditions KW - Citizen participation KW - Burgerschap. KW - Verzorgingsstaat. KW - Europe, Western KW - Social policy KW - State, Welfare KW - Culture KW - Culture and politics KW - Political aspects KW - West Europe KW - Western Europe KW - Economic policy KW - State, The KW - Welfare economics KW - Community organization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4779736 AB - Faced with budget problems and an aging population, European governments in recent years have begun reconsidering the structure and extent of the welfare state. Guarantees and directives have given way to responsibilities and choice. This volume analyzes the effect of this change on the citizens of Germany, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. It traces the emergence of new discourses around social movements for greater independence, power, and control, and the way these discourses serve to reframe the struggle at hand. Making use of ethnographic research and policy analysis, the authors analyze the cultural transition, tensions, and trajectory of this call toward active citizenship. ER -