Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptations in Global Economies

by Gøsta Esping-Andersen

This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging scenarios in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Leading experts on each of these regions examine the current structures of social protection, consider the causes of the current welfare state crisis and highlight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761950486
• ISBN13: 9780761950486
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"

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While perhaps not as ambitious as "Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism", this volume is also less concerned to push a theory. Instead it takes a broad global view of Welfare States, not only in the rich western countries, but also in East Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. This collection of essays again shows Esping-Anderson's (and his groupies') enviably clear understanding of why Welfare States behave the way they do. The prose is wonderfully clear through-and-through.