The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain

by Davide Vampa

Book Overview

This book is a study of the increasing territorial variations in the development of sub-national welfare systems that have occurred as an effect of the decentralization of health care and social assistance policies in Italy, Spain and Great Britain. The author examines the political factors that underlie these variations by combining cross-regional and cross-country comparisons using mixed methods. Vampa's main finding is that regionalist parties...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319817914
• ISBN13: 9783319817910
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"