Explaining Recent Shifts in Family Policy

Contents:
Introduction: Change and continuity in recent family policies - Margitta Mätzke and Ilona Ostner

Continuity and consensus: Governing families in Denmark - Peter Abrahamson

The reframing of family policies in France: Processes and actors - Claude Martin

Exit, voice, and family policy in Japan: Limited changes despite broad recognition of the declining fertility problem - Leonard Schoppa

Shifts in family policy in the UK under New Labour - Mary Daly

Changes in the regulation of responsibilities towards childcare needs in Italy and the Netherlands: Different timing, increasingly different approaches - Trudie Knijn and Chiara Saraceno

Germany outpaces Austria in childcare policy: The historical contingencies of ‘conservative’ childcare policy - Sigrid Leitner

Postscript: Ideas and agents of change in time - Margitta Mätzke and Ilona Ostner