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Studies of contemporary welfare state change — including studies of retrenchment — exhibit fundamental differences in respect of the dependent variable on which they focus. What is called the ‘dependent variable problem’ in comparative welfare state analysis (Green-Pedersen 2004; see also Kuhner 2007) refers to a number of issues relating to the conceptualization, operationalization and measurement of the phenomenon under investigation. The challenge is to delineate what retrenchment is and what it is not.
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Starke, P. (2008). Preliminaries: Measurement, Theories and Strategy of Comparison. In: Radical Welfare State Retrenchment. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288577_2
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