Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries

Author(s):  
Emanuele Ferragina
2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Yerkes ◽  
Romke van der Veen

Author(s):  
Sotiria Theodoropoulou

This chapter introduces the questions that the book addresses. It explains the rationale and motivation of the book with reference to the existing literature on welfare state change and the political economy thereof, as well as within the context of recent policy developments. It then justifies the empirical approach and explains in more detail the rationale behind the selection of national case studies.


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