The Politics of Social Risk
Subtitle: Business and Welfare State Development (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521827416
Subjects: Labour economics; Political economy; Political science & theory; Welfare & benefit systems; Political Science; General; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Social security; Economics - Theory; Political Science / General; France; Public Policy - Social Policy; Employee fringe benefits; Germany; History
First sentence: During recent decades, welfare states in advanced industrialized societies have experienced a bifurcated trajectory of reform (Kitschelt et al. 1999, Huber and Stephens 2001, Pierson 2000b).