Reforming the Welfare State

This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014. Using a variety of welfare state types in Europe, the authors have systematically investigated core questions that have preoccupied the welfare state literature at least since the 1990s.

Autorentext

Carsten Jensen is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Georg Wenzelburger is Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Reforming the Welfare State 3. The Welfare State Reform Dataset 4. Welfare Reform in Time 5. Different Countries, Different Policy Instruments? 6. Visibility 7. The Timing of Welfare State Reforms 8. Partisanship 9. Conclusion