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Title The Development of welfare states in Europe and America / edited by Peter Flora and Arnold J. Heidenheimer
Published New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Books, [1981]
©1981

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Description 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Part one : What is the welfare state? -- The historical core and changing boundaries of the welfare state / Peter Flora and Arnold J. Heidenheimer -- Part two : Why and how welfare states grew : determinants and variations -- Modernization, democratization, and the development of welfare states in Western Europe / Peter Flora and Jens Alber -- The development of welfare states in North America / Robert T. Kudrle and Theodore R. Marmor -- Part three : Social security : the importance of socioeconomic and political variables -- The growth of social insurance programs in Scandinavia : outside influences and internal forces / Stein Kuhnle -- Government responses to the challenge of unemployment : the development of unemployment insurance in Western Europe / Jens Alber -- Part four : Economic equality : the distribution of incomes -- The historical development of income inequality in Western Europe and the United States / Franz Kraus -- Part five : Educational opportunities : access to education and priorities in welfare state development -- Educational opportunities and government policies in Europe in the period of industrialization / Hartmut Kaelble -- Education and social security entitlements in Europe and America / Arnold J. Heidenheimer -- Part six : An end to growth? Fiscal capacities and containment pressures -- Trends and problems in postwar public expenditure development in Western Europe and North America / Jürgen Kohl -- Leftism, Catholicism, and Democratic corporatism : the role of political parties in recent welfare state development / Harold L. Wilensky -- Toward a new welfare state? / Hugh Heclo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Welfare state -- America.
Welfare state -- Europe.
Welfare state.
Author Flora, Peter, 1944-
Heidenheimer, Arnold J.
LC no. 79065227
ISBN 0878553576
0878559205