Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

A discussion of the case study method which develops an integrative framework for causal
inference in small-n research. This framework is applied to research design tasks such as …

This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that
occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals …

The spread of market-oriented reforms has been one of the major political and economic
trends of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Governments have, to varying …

In the wake of the 'Great Recession', welfare states have entered a new phase of austerity.
Simultaneously, new social risks and the rise of the knowledge economy fuel new demands …

Since the late 1970s, the developed welfare states of the European Union have been
recasting the policy mix on which their systems of social protection were built. They have …

The 2010 Coalition has set itself the challenge of combining an unprecedentedly rapid and
profound retrenchment with a fundamental restructuring of the public sector, both to be …

Distinguishing four sources of power-ideological, economic, military, and political-this series
traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume of Michael Mann's …

Page 1 |ANSFORMATIONS OF THE STATE SERIES The Welfare State as Crisis Manager
Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis Peter Starke Alexandra …

Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a
stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition …