The European welfare systems, established after the Second World War, have been under sustained attack since the late 1970s from the neoliberal drive towards a

The European welfare systems, established after the Second World War, have been under sustained attack since the late 1970s from the neoliberal drive towards a

Weighing in on the euro-austerity debate, this book uses case studies from three countries to evaluate the distinctive politics of fiscal policy and welfare sta

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fash

Why have neo-liberal economic ideas been so resilient since the 1980s, despite major intellectual challenges, crippling financial and political crises, and fail