Debating Unemployment Policy: Political Communication and the Labour Market in Western Europe - Hardcover

 
9781108497510: Debating Unemployment Policy: Political Communication and the Labour Market in Western Europe

Synopsis

In 2008 the world experienced the Great Recession, a financial and economic crisis of enormous proportions and the greatest economic downturn since the 1930s. In its wake, unemployment became a key preoccupation of West European publics and politicians. This comparative study considers the policy debates surrounding unemployment in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark and Switzerland since 2008. With an over-arching focus on drawing out cross-national commonalities and differences, the authors ask whether patterns of political communication vary across countries. Their analysis draws on interviews with labour market policy-makers in the six selected countries, and paints a revealing picture. Appealing to researchers in comparative politics, political communication and welfare state research, this book will also interest practitioners involved in labour market policy.

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About the Authors

Laurent Bernhard is a senior researcher at the Swiss Centre for Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS), which is based at Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Flavia Fossati is Assistant Professor for Social Policy at Universität Wien, Austria. Her research interests include social, labour market and migration policy, labour market integration and discrimination research.

Regula Hänggli is a professor specialized in political communication at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland. She is also a member of a federal expert group addressing the digital transformation of our society.

Hanspeter Kriesi holds the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute, Florence. In 2017, he received the Mattei-Dogan Prize. Currently he is working on an European Research Council (ERC) project on the political consequences of the Great Recession in Europe.

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