Restructuring the Welfare State: Globalization and Social Policy Reform in Finland and Sweden

ISBN-13: 9781843761242 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 232 str.

Virpi Timonen

Opis

What happens to extensive and generous welfare states when they are faced with serious economic crisis and the effects of globalization? This thorough analysis of the processes of social policy restructuring in two Nordic welfare states endeavours to answer this and other questions related to their survival in a world of intensifying global competition.