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Over the past three decades, market reforms have transformed public services such as education, health, and care of the elderly. Whereas previous studies presen

Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the start

The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to com

An analysis of the welfare state from a political economy perspective that examines the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on industrial

This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, a