Robert E. Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Henk-Jan Dirven. The Real
Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999,
x+358 pp.The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism represents the fruits of ten years' interaction
of an international team of colleagues from Australia and the Netherlands.
What it does can be summarised as follows: it compares different welfare states
each of which is deemed to represent one of the three main types of welfare
regimes. This is done with reference to five external criteria taken as standards of
success. As a basis for the assessment, the study uses an advanced statistical
instrument – namely – panel studies. And to say right at the beginning, this is an
impressive piece of work.
Urban renewal policies in the Netherlands in an era of changing welfare regimes
