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.
About the Author
Carsten Jensen is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Georg Wenzelburger is Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Book Information
ISBN 9781032176413
Author Carsten Jensen
Format Paperback
Page Count 136
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 208g
