Download or read book Investigating Welfare State Change written by Jochen Clasen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary accounts of welfare state change have produced conflicting findings and incompatible theoretical explanations. By discussing the most salient aspects of the 'dependent variable problem', this work offers suggestions as to how the problem might be tackled within empirical cross-national analyses of modern welfare states.