Restructuring the Welfare State Political Institutions and Policy Change

The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing international competition for capital and labor are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competiting pressures and offers a coherent analyses of both institutional resilience and institutional change. Adopting an evolutionary approach, this innovative volume demonstrates both how past practices and policies significantly affect the current options and how social and economic forces impinge upon each of these societies in surprisingly different ways. Cross-national in scope and unified in approach,Restructuring the Welfare Stateexamines core issues facing the contemporary welfare state while at the same time significantly advancing historical institutionalist theory.Rothstein, Bo is the author of 'Restructuring the Welfare State Political Institutions and Policy Change', published 2002 under ISBN 9780312296278 and ISBN 0312296274.