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Record Nr.

UNISA996208533803316

Autore

Green-Pedersen Christoffer

Titolo

The politics of justification : party competition and welfare-state retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998 / / Christoffer Green-Pedersen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-280-95884-7

9786610958849

90-485-0515-1

0-585-49644-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Amsterdam Archaeological Studies

Disciplina

361.9489

Soggetti

Public welfare - Denmark

Public welfare - Netherlands

Social security - Government policy - Denmark

Social security - Government policy - Netherlands

Political parties - Denmark

Political parties - Netherlands

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From theories of expansion to theories of retrenchment -- 3. A framework for government choice on retrenchment -- 4. Research strategy and research design -- 5. Retrenchments in Denmark and the Netherlands -- 6. Dutch Politics and welfare-state retrenchment. How party competition produced consensus -- 7. Danish politics and welfare-state retrenchment: The difficulties of a right-wing government and the possibilities of a left-wing government -- 8. The evidence on balance and some quibbles -- 9. Party politics matter - summary and implications -- Appendix -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Christoffer Green-Pedersen's insightful examination of political party strategy in Europe reveals strong links between party consensus and



policy retrenchment, arguing that the former allows governments to frame retrenchment in a way that justifies it to the electorate. In the Netherlands, Green-Pedersen shows, such consensus emerged in the mid-1980s, allowing the government to implement a number of welfare retrenchments; in Denmark, consensus did not emerge until the Social Democratic Party re-entered government in 1993, leading to less welfare-state retrenchment than in the Netherlands.