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The United States of America provides a unique example where the existence of the prevailing models of a welfare state or state of welfarism can neither be denied nor accepted. In fact, we find an amalgam of the behaviourist, residual, social insurance and populist forms of welfare coexisting.
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Gupta, A. (2005). Recent Welfare Reforms in the United States. In: Vivekanandan, B., Kurian, N. (eds) Welfare States and the Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554917_14
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