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Do stakeholders in Denmark know about social investment within long-term care?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2020

Bent Greve
Bent Greve*
Affiliation:
Department of Society and Globalisation, University of Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark
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CONTACT Bent Greve bgr@ruc.dk
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Abstract

Social investment has become a buzzword in recent years. The concept is not always precise or being used in the same way in all European countries. The central tenet of the social investment approach is to treat public expenditures not just as an economic burden, but also as an investment in the future. This is also a part of the development in the discourse. The social investment perspective is an example of how new ideas might influence social policy development. However, the use of the concept at the political level does not imply that it is also known by stakeholders. The article explains the dichotomy between the use of a concept on an overarching political and academic level with a practical understanding among actors without using the concept. The article concludes that social investment can be used in the field and that actors have an understanding hereof.

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Social investmentstakeholdersNordic welfare stateslong-term care
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Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 2018 , pp. 127 - 139
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Copyright © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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