"Inclusion or Segmentation - The Politics of Welfare Reform in 21st Century Western Europe"

Re-watch the lecture from Professor Silja Häusermann (Professor of Political Science, University of Zurich) at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention's 2023 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture.
Western European welfare states are facing three key social and economic challenges in the 21st century: the rise of the knowledge economy, demographic ageing, and the massive political polarisation over questions of immigration and integration.
How can these challenges be addressed with the tools of social policy? How much resource can and should be spent on correcting market outcomes and equalising incomes? Should the welfare state honour its promise of providing encompassing social security by shielding citizens from the risks and challenges of the early 21st century, or by helping them adapt to these new realities, and by expanding the pool of solidarity to new risk groups? The answers different citizens and political parties in Europe give to these questions differ dramatically.