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Comparative Welfare Systems

The Scandinavian Model in a Period of Change

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Bent Greve

    1. Roskilde University, Denmark

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Welfare States Research Core: Overview and Synthesis

    1. Welfare States Research Core: Overview and Synthesis

      • Bent Greve
      Pages 1-10

  3. The Scandinavian Model and the Variety of Welfare Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Welfare State Models in Comparative Research: Do the Models Describe the Reality?

      • Thomas Boje
      Pages 13-27

    3. Can We Define a European Welfare State Model?

      • Peter Baldwin
      Pages 29-44

    4. Welfare State and Development Models

      • Bruno Amoroso
      Pages 45-53

  4. Economic Aspects of the Welfare System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Macroeconomic Analysis of the Welfare State: a Post-Keynesian View

      • Jesper Jespersen
      Pages 57-65

    3. Ways of Financing the Welfare State and their Distributional Consequences

      • Bent Greve
      Pages 67-86

    4. The Nordic Welfare Model and the European Union

      • Rune Ervik, Stein Kuhnle
      Pages 87-107

  5. Welfare Policy and Administrative Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Local Democracy: Community Power based on Institutional Change

      • Peter Bogason
      Pages 111-131

    3. Local Welfare Systems in Denmark in a Period of Political Reconstruction: A Scandinavian Perspective

      • Søren Villadsen
      Pages 133-164

    4. Post-Fordism and the State

      • Bob Jessop
      Pages 165-183

    5. Eastern European Welfare Systems in Comparative Perspective

      • Klaus Nielsen
      Pages 185-213

    6. Beyond the Welfare State: Planning for a Welfare Society

      • Franco Archibugi
      Pages 215-237

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 239-261
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The Scandinavian welfare-state model is changing. This book presents these changes and an interpretation of why they have taken place. All scholars interested in welfare-state analysis need this book with its new and refreshing analysis of this specific model. This book provides a compelling and rigorous analysis, which by bringing scholars from different disciplines together, casts new light and insight into the Scandinavian model. It will stimulate discussion about the welfare state, and at the same time it will be of great value for all students in the field of welfare-state analysis.

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  • Roskilde University, Denmark

    Bent Greve

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