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The aim of the three ‘mini-case studies’ was to see to what extent the conclusions drawn from the in-depth study of an ‘extreme case’ of welfare state retrenchment, that is, New Zealand, can be applied to a limited number of ‘diverse cases’ covering a considerable variation of welfare state structures and political-institutional arrangements in the OECD-world. Our concluding discussion is divided into an analysis of the main similarities and differences between countries and an explanation of the patterns revealed by that analysis.
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Starke, P. (2008). Explaining the Cross-National Pattern. In: Radical Welfare State Retrenchment. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288577_8
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