This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplin

Traditional public policy and welfare economics have held that market failures are common, requiring the intervention of government in order to serve and protec

Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens offer the most systematic examination to date of the origins, character, effects, and prospects of generous welfare states in

Over the past three decades, market reforms have transformed public services such as education, health, and care of the elderly. Whereas previous studies presen

Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the start