European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the US level of
generosity. Economic models suggest that redistribution is a function of the variance and …

There are three great puzzles in interpreting European experience with large welfare states,
supportive government regulations of markets, and related social part-ner centralized …

THE AMERICAN WELFARE STATE is known far and wide as a chronic underachiever.
Historically, the United States created social programs later than many nations. Currently …

Debates on how to reduce poverty and inequality have focused on two controversial
questions: Should social policies be targeted to low-income groups or be universal? Should …

The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's
distinctive system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American …

The welfare state is the distinctive contribution of Europe to the modern world. Other places
do market capitalism better, and democracy, art and culture at least as well. However, the …

This study investigates the relationship between the welfare state and poverty with multiple
measures of the welfare state and poverty in an unbalanced panel of 18 Western nations …

In Latin America, the relationship between income and support for redistribution is weak and
variable despite the region's extreme income inequality. This article shows that this condition …

In the post-World War II era the apparent success of Keynesian economic principles in
evening out the instabilities of the business cycle stimulated rapid growth in public welfare …

Students of the American welfare state have regularly invoked comparisons with European
welfare states. These comparisons, seldom flattering, have contributed to a portrait that is by …