Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe

Taylor-Gooby, P.

The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy assumptions and goals of the key actors is central to this process. This book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-08-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403993175

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286016

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 179