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- Title
Building blocks for a new social architecture: the LEGO paradigm of an active society.
- Authors
Jenson, Jane; Saint-Martin, Denis
- Abstract
Social policy communities now often focus on ‘new social risks’. Despite a clear preference for controlling state spending, they also consider that these risks call for ‘social investments’. Concentration on investments, activation and the future is considered an optimal anchor for redesigning their welfare systems. Convergence around three ideas prompt us to speak of a shift towards a LEGOTM paradigm: learning over the life-course; a future orientation; and the collective benefits of an active society. Just as when Keynesianism was paradigmatic, however, we recognise that divergences exist in the ways that the paradigm is implemented.
- Subjects
PUBLIC spending; INVESTMENTS; SOCIAL policy; WELFARE economics; PUBLIC welfare; DIFFERENCES
- Publication
Policy & Politics, 2006, Vol 34, Issue 3, p429
- ISSN
0305-5736
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1332/030557306777695325