Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
ISBN:
9789048505159
Series Statement:
Changing Welfare States
Content:
An investigation of welfare retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands in 1982-1998.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- The arguments in brief -- The structure of the book -- 2 From theories of expansion to theories of retrenchment -- Theories of welfare-state expansion -- Theories of welfare-state retrenchment -- 3 A framework for government choice on retrenchment -- Political parties: their objectives and incentives for retrenchment -- A justification strategy of blame avoidance -- Systems of party competition and their effects on the possibilities of pursuing -- Connection to the labour market: which social-security schemes will be retrenched the most? -- The theoretical argument in brief -- 4 Research strategy and research design -- Denmark and the Netherlands - a most similar systems design -- The choice of social-security schemes -- The choice of time period -- Definition and measurement of retrenchment -- Some hypotheses -- 5 Retrenchments in Denmark and the Netherlands -- Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands -- Actual variation in extent of retrenchment -- The match between the actual and expected variation in retrenchment -- 6 Dutch Politics and welfare-state retrenchment. How party competition produced consensus -- Depillarisation and fumbling response to the oil crises -- The first and second Lubbers governments: No-nonsense policy and an emerging consensus -- The third Lubbers government: WAO affair and the fall of the CDA -- Purple governments: centrist policy without the CDA -- The Dutch case - a general view -- 7 Danish politics and welfare-state retrenchment:The difficulties of a right-wing government and the possibilities of a left-wing government -- Landslide election and fumbling socio-economic policy -- Right-wing governments and the difficulties of welfare-state retrenchment -- 1993-1998: the possibilities of social democratic-led governments.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789053565902
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789053565902
Additional Edition:
Print version The Politics of Justification : Party Competition and Welfare-State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=420030
