| dc.description.abstract | The research carried out in this book originates from a collaborative
research project that we initiated in 2011. Although this book has been a
long time in the making, it could hardly have been timelier. Generational
perspectives on justice, institutions and outcomes in welfare states are
more topical than ever.
In our pursuit of the book project, we were helped by several external
research grants. Most importantly, we received a three-year project grant
from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
(FORTE) on “Generational welfare contracts in transition: just institutions
and outcomes in Sweden and other countries” (no. 2010-0336).
We also benefited from the financial support of another FORTE project
on “Changing social policy and income inequality: Sweden in comparative
perspective” (no. 2012-0995), and a project financed by the Swedish
Research Council on “Global economic crisis, institutional change and
inequality in comparative perspective: changing Western welfare states and
labor markets since the global financial crisis of 2008” (no. 2012-5503).
Several colleagues provided useful comments on different parts of the
book. We would like to express our gratitude to Ludvig Beckman and
Kåre Vernby at Stockholm University, Karl-Oskar Lindgren and Sven
Oskarsson at Uppsala University, and Pieter Vanhuysse at the University
of Southern Denmark. We would like to thank Sofie Burman, Laure
Doctrinal, Mari Eneroth and Sebastian Sirén for excellent research assistance.
We are also grateful to members of the Economic Ethics Network,
the Research Committee on poverty, social welfare and social policy
of the International Sociological Association, and the Foundation for
International Studies on Social Security for useful feedback.
We thank Emily Mew, our commissioning editor at Edward Elgar, for
supporting and helping us to finalize this book project. | |
