Reforming the welfare state /
Jensen, Carsten, 1980-
Reforming the welfare state / Carsten Jensen and Georg Wenzelburger. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in the political economy of the welfare state .
Introduction -- Reforming the welfare state -- The welfare state reform dataset -- Welfare reform in time -- Different countries, different policy instruments? -- Visibility -- The timing of welfare state reforms -- Partisanship -- Conclusion.
"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 scholars, students and practitioners studying, and working in, welfare and the welfare state, and more broadly to political science, sociology and social policy"--
9781351058599 1351058592 9781351058582 1351058584 9781351058568 1351058568 9781351058575 1351058576
Welfare state--Europe.
Public welfare--Europe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Europe--Social policy.
HN373.5
361.6/1094
Reforming the welfare state / Carsten Jensen and Georg Wenzelburger. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in the political economy of the welfare state .
Introduction -- Reforming the welfare state -- The welfare state reform dataset -- Welfare reform in time -- Different countries, different policy instruments? -- Visibility -- The timing of welfare state reforms -- Partisanship -- Conclusion.
"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 scholars, students and practitioners studying, and working in, welfare and the welfare state, and more broadly to political science, sociology and social policy"--
9781351058599 1351058592 9781351058582 1351058584 9781351058568 1351058568 9781351058575 1351058576
Welfare state--Europe.
Public welfare--Europe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Europe--Social policy.
HN373.5
361.6/1094