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‘This timely book offers compelling, critical yet nuanced analyses of the three key features shaping welfare-state reform since the Great Recession: austerity, retrenchment and populism. Covering a rich array of European regions, sectors...

In this updated second edition, internationally renowned scholar B. Guy Peters provides a succinct introduction to public policy and illustrates the design approach to policy problems. Peters demonstrates how decision-makers can make mor...

‘The aftermath of the 2008 crisis left many communities across Europe facing serious problems, with the capacity of households to endure hardships pushed to the limit. In this exceptional volume the editors have brought together and dist...

‘Bent Greve investigates the stories we tell ourselves about the welfare state and its workings. This book is not only a quick and authoritative reality check on these stories, it is also a path-breaking study of how such popular narrati...

‘In their well composed book, Keman and Woldendorp present a strong argument for the key role of the state in developing the public domain. They analyse painstakingly how modern railway systems emerged in a set of Western democracies on ...

‘This book provides a needed sober analysis of the state of corporatism since the Great Recession. Carefully tracing tripartite policy-making in Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria, it shows how and why social partners continue to play ...