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Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems

Bruno Palier (Editor), Claude Martin (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0680-4
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176 pages
February 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Gathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes.
  • Demonstrates that, contrary to the common view, 'Bismarckian' welfare states have changed significantly
  • Contains long term but also very accurate data and perspective beginning from the 1980s and up to the most recent reforms
  • Speaks to two literatures: the one on welfare state, social policies and welfare state reforms; the other to the political science literature on changes, path dependency and incremental changes
  • Organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework
  • Includes contributions from the best specialists of the field, including members of the European academic community of social policy comparativists