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What Future for Social Security?
Cross-national and multi-disciplinary perspectives
15-17 June 2000
University of Stirling
Scotland
This conference will bring together about 100 participants, including 25
speakers, from a large number of European and other countries. It will focus
on social security systems as they are adapting, or are under considerable
pressure to adapt, to economic, demographic, social and political change.
Themes of the Conference
1. Changing Principles within Social Security
meanings and objectives of social security in the 21st Century; social
insurance and the contributory principle; rights and responsibilities;
public and private forms of social security; solidarity and social security;
citizenship; social rights and gender stratification.
2. Social Security Reform
options for policy change; constraints; institutions, interests and ideas;
adaptations to changing socio-economic contexts and pressures for change;
social democracy, the 'third way' and social security reform; institution
building and institutional change.
3. Policy Domains and Impacts of Change
including: pensions; family support; activation programmes; labour market
exit and entry schemes; sickness and disability benefits; lone parents;
social and gender divisions; poverty and social exclusion and social
stratification
speakers include:
Mike Adler, Jørgen Goul Andersen, Helen Bolderson, Jonathan Bradshaw,
Giuliano Bonoli, Mary Daly, John Dixon, Martin Evans, Zsuzsa Ferge, Paul
Henman, Karl Hinrichs, Olli Kangas, Jon Kvist, Ruth Lister, Deborah Mabbett,
Jane Millar, Luis Moreno, Ann Orloff, Einar Overbye, Bruno Palier, Winfried
Schmaehl, Heather Trickey, Wim van Oorschot.
For more information and booking forms, please contact:
Professor Jochen Clasen
Department of Applied Social Science
University of Stirling
GB-Stirling FK9 4LA
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Jochen Clasen
Department of Applied Social Science
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: +44 1786 467706
Fax: +44 1786 467689
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