Download or read book Radical Welfare State Retrenchment written by P. Starke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book confronts one of the most fiercely contested issues in current political debates: how is welfare state retrenchment possible in modern democracies despite the welfare state's continuing popular appeal? Starke offers an international comparative analysis of welfare state retrenchment and an in-depth examination of its radical deployments.