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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170985703321

Titolo

The end of the welfare state? : responses to state retrenchment / / edited by Stefan Svallfors and Peter Taylor-Gooby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-62121-3

1-873712-45-6

1-134-62122-1

1-280-33359-6

0-203-02295-5

0-203-15941-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Routledge/ESA studies in European society

Altri autori (Persone)

SvallforsStefan

Taylor-GoobyPeter

Disciplina

361.6/5

Soggetti

Public welfare - Public opinion

Welfare state - Public opinion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and developing increasingly stringent techniques for the surveillance of the poor. Almost all experts agree that we are likely to see further constraints on state welfare in the 21st Century. Gathering together the findings from up-to-date attitude surveys in Europe East and West, the US and Australasia, this revealing book shows that, contrary to the claims of many experts and policy-makers, the welfare state is still highly po