num_pages: 262
description: This book shows how responsiveness in European welfare programs is institutionalized through nationally distinct legal foundations, professional traditions, and resource networks, while revealing how resource scarcities threaten to erode these capabilities.
language: English
title: Agents of the Welfare State: How Caseworkers Respond to Need in the United States, Germany, and Sweden
titlecomplete: Agents of the Welfare State: How Caseworkers Respond to Need in the United States, Germany, and Sweden
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan