The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis

by Peter Starke, Alexandra Kaasch, Franca Van Hooren

Book Overview

This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment are shaped by domestic politics and existing welfare state institutions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230285252
• ISBN13: 9780230285255
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"