Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fash
Ingmar J. Schustereder investigates the relative influence of economic globalization and post industrial developments as drivers behind recent welfare state cha
The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing int
An analysis of the welfare state from a political economy perspective that examines the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on industrial
The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic com