| Reforming the Welfare State Contributor(s): Jensen, Carsten (Author), Wenzelburger, Georg (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138482226 ISBN-13: 9781138482227 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Political Science | World - European |
| Dewey: 361.610 |
| LCCN: 2019034226 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare St |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (0.60 lbs) 126 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014. Using a variety of welfare state types in Europe, the authors have systematically investigated core questions that have preoccupied the welfare state literature at least since the 1990s. These include the extent of path dependency in mature welfare states, the usage of so-called invisible policy instruments for hiding cutbacks, and the role of partisanship - on whether the ideological color of the incumbent affects policy - which have been analysed in depth by examining the new dataset presented in this book. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners studying, and working in, welfare and the welfare state, and more broadly to political science, sociology and social policy. |