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The best available up-to-date scholarship in comparative socio-economic research in welfare state reform

Gathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European welfare state reforms in an analytical framework which allows a new approach to social policy changes.

• Demonstrates that, contrary to the common view, 'Bismarckian' welfare states have changed significantly
• Contains long term but also very accurate data and perspective beginning from the 1980s and up to the most recent reforms
• Speaks to two literatures: the one on welfare state, social policies and welfare state...

This text seeks to counter the somewhat unsubstantiated speculation about the impact of globalization upon welfare states. Combining both theoretical and empirical analysis it asks What is globalization, and how has it been implicated in recent changes to European welfare states? Covering all the major European welfare systems, it suggests new empirical and theoretical perspectives. Globalization processes exist, but their link with welfare change is complex, and varies both between countries and types of welfare state.