What Future for Social Security?: Debates and Reforms in National and Cross-National Perspective

by Jochen Clasen

It is widely assumed today that the 'welfare state' is contracting or retrenching as an effect of the close scrutiny to which entitlement to social security benefits is being subject in most developed countries. In this book, fifteen authorities from nine different countries - the UK, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the US - investigate to what extent this assumption is warranted.Taking into account developments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861344104
• ISBN13: 9781861344106
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"