A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?: The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe

by Bruno Palier

This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals unexpected important structural reforms, to be understood as the culmination of a long reform trajectory, analyzed in detail with the tools of comparative historical institutionalism. With these reforms, Bismarckian welfare systems have lost their encompassing capacities, have partially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 908964234X
• ISBN13: 9789089642349
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"