In a period of rapid change for welfare states around the world, this insightful book offers a comparative study of three historically small welfare states: the

Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations

This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centra

This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, a

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