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The OECD and European Welfare States
Edited by Klaus Armingeon, Michelle Beyeler
The OECD and European Welfare States comprises 14 country studies considering OECD recommendations and their implementation in Western European welfare states, an analysis of the internal processes in the OECD, a theoretical introduction...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Rethinking the Welfare State
Edited by Martin Rein, Winfried Schmähl
In this book a distinguished group of contributors discuss the changing political economy of pension reform. They focus on those countries which have launched a significant reframing of their pension system. Each chapter provides a de... -
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Restructuring the Welfare State
Virpi Timonen
What happens to extensive and generous welfare states when they are faced with serious economic crisis and the effects of globalization? This thorough analysis of the processes of social policy restructuring in two Nordic welfare states ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Social Exclusion in European Welfare States
Edited by Ruud Muffels, Panos Tsakloglou, David G. Mayes
Social Exclusion in European Welfare States focuses on the complex relationship between economic welfare, labour market performance and social inclusion/exclusion. The contributors in the volume examine in detail the alleged trade-off be...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Economic Theory and the Welfare State
Edited by Nicholas Barr
This authoritative collection brings together 100 key articles on the subject of the welfare state selected by one of the world’s leading experts. The first volume discusses the economic theory and related matters which underpin analy... -
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The Foundations of the Welfare State
Edited by Robert E. Goodin, Deborah Mitchell
This three-volume compendium reproduces all the key texts on the welfare state – its rise and fall, its varying rationales and instrumentalities, its different forms in different periods and different places. Political history and socia... -
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The Welfare State in Europe
Edited by Marco Buti, Daniele Franco, Lucio R. Pench
This book analyses the main problems in the functioning of the welfare state and possible actions for its reform. Focusing on the European Union, it looks at the achievements of and challenges to the welfare state as we enter the 21st c...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Globalization and the Welfare State
Ramesh Mishra
Globalization and the Welfare State is highly accessible and will be welcomed by students and scholars of social policy, social work, political science and sociology as well as by policymakers in international organizations and government. -
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Enterprise and the Welfare State
Edited by Martin Rein, Eskil Wadensjö
Enterprise and the Welfare State argues that there is more to welfare than simply provision by the state and so the focus of this book is on the welfare society rather than the welfare state. This requires a new system of statistical acc... -
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Challenges to the Welfare State
Edited by Henry Cavanna
Challenges to the Welfare State examines and assesses cultural, economic and political problems facing welfare states in Europe and North America and provides policy suggestions to alleviate these problems. An important group of authors... -
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Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe
Mark Kleinman
Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe identifies a divergence in housing policy between, on the one hand, the majority of relatively affluent households and, on the other, an impoverished minority. The legal, financial and economic c... -
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THE WELFARE STATE IN BRITAIN
Michael Hill
The Welfare State in Britain presents a history of British social policy from the election of Clement Attlee to the fall of Margaret Thatcher. Michael Hill focuses upon the political processes which influenced the key reforms of the lat...
