Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptations in Global Economies

by Gøsta Esping-Andersen

An impressive editorial feat which attests to the potential for well-structured and consistently integrated comparative social analysis providing, not only a cogent evaluation of the ironies of current policy developments, but also asserting that economic and political configurations may well ensure that "welfare states in transition" could retain the most positive and popularly valued elements of their "aquis"' - British Journal of Sociology

• 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.