Building a sustainable welfare state

West European Politics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 257-282

  Ferrera, Maurizio ^a,b   Rhodes, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE PROVISION; WELFARE REFORM;

EID: 0033938919     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402380008425375     Document Type: Article

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47. We are indebted to the recent work and personal suggestions of Anton Hemenjck for this interpretation of the continental systems.
48. Rhodes, 'The Political Economy of Social Pacts'.
49. See the text of the communication on A Concerted Strategy for Modernising Social Protection, COM(99)347 final, adopted on 14 July 1999
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