2015年12月8日(周二)上午10:30-12:00点, 英国约克大学社会政策与社会工作系约翰· 哈德森教授(John Hudson)将在求是楼320教室举行题为“英国及欧洲社会投资福利国家的兴衰” (The Rise and Fall of Social Investment Welfare State in the UK and Beyond) 的讲座。

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学者简介:

    Biography

    John’s research and teaching covers three key themes: (1) the policy process; (2) comparative social policy analysis; (3) government in the ‘information age’. He has published widely in these areas, including articles in leading journals such Journal of European Social Policy, Policy Studies, Policy & Politics, Journal of Social Policy and Social Policy & Society. Together with Stuart Lowe he is author of Understanding the Policy Process, and with Stefan Kühner and Stuart Lowe author of The Short Guide to Social Policy.

    John has worked at the University of York since 1998 and was Head of Social Policy/Deputy Head of Social Policy & Social Work from 2009-2014.

    He was Visiting Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2005; in 2007 visited the University of Sydney on a Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) International Researcher Mobility Scheme award; and, in 2008 was Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Public Administration Research, Sun Yat-Sen University, China.

    He has been a member of both the East Asian Social Policy (EASP) research network Executive Committee (2009-14) and UK Social Policy Association (SPA) Executive Committee (1998-2008, 2010-12) and was the lead organiser for the 2012 Joint Annual Conference of the EASP & SPA which took place at the University of York in July 2012. He is currently co-editor of the SPA`s Social Policy Review. 

讲座简介:

The Rise and Fall of Social Investment Welfare State in the UK and Beyond

英国及欧洲社会投资福利国家的兴衰

    In the United Kingdom, in common with many European Union (EU) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, the idea of a ‘social investment’ model of welfare gained momentum at the start of the 21^stcentury.

     与欧盟及经合组织国家一致，在英国自21世纪以来，社会投资福利国家作为福利国家一种新的模式开始引人瞩目。

    Proponents of this model typically argued that social policies focused on education, training, child-care and family-friendly working could allow governments to deliver both a fairer society and a stronger economy. During the late 1990s and much of the 2000s, implementation of this model had appeared to deliver impressive social and economic returns, the UK witnessing improvements in key social and economic indicators that often outstripped those of key EU/OECD competitors.

      这种新的福利国家模式支持者认为社会政策如果集中在教育，培训，儿童保育和家庭友善工作政策等方面，会有利于政府促进社会公平和经济繁荣。从20世纪90年代后期一直到21世纪初期，对这种社会投资福利的执行获得了很显著的社会和经济回报，英国政府在主要的社会和经济指数上都超越了在欧盟和经合组织的主要竞争者。

    However, the severe impacts of the Global Financial Crisis exposed some major limitations in the UK’s model. Since 2010, policy makers have switched their focus towards cutting public spending and reducing budget deficits. Indeed, the austerity based approach of the current government likely sounds the death of the UK’s once seemingly buoyant social investment model.

     但是，全球金融危机的影响暴露了英国这个新的福利国家模式的严重局限性。2010年以来，政策决策着转为关注公共开支的削减和减少预算赤字。因此以紧缩为基础的现任政府很大程度上宣判了一度很活跃的社会投资福利模式的结束。

    This lectures traces the rise and fall of the UK’s social investment model, from the move to the 1980s onwards, highlighting the key contours of social and economic reform over recent decade. It places the reforms in the context of similar changes taking place across the EU and OECD, relating developments in the UK to those taking place in similar countries and considering the role of the EU and OECD in promoting moves towards a social investment model.

     这个讲座追溯英国社会投资福利模式的兴衰，从20世纪80年代起，厘清近几十年来英国的经济和社会重大改革措施。同时把欧盟和经合组织国家的类似变革作为背景，把英国的发展与类似国家的变革相联系，进一步探索欧盟和经合组织是如何推进社会投资福利模式。

     The lecture ends by exploring the progress of, and prospects for, a social investment model of welfare across rich countries generally. In so doing, it underlines some of the many contradictions in the model that were glossed over during economic good times but have become much more visible following the Global Financial Crisis. 

    讲座综合探索在发达国家社会投资福利模式的发展和未来，强调了此模式的许多自相矛盾的特性在经济发展良好阶段被隐藏但是在全球金融危机的冲击下变得显而易见。