Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a crit
This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, a
This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherl
How has New Public Management influenced social policy reform in different developed welfare states? New managerialism is conceptualized as a paradigm, which no