The state and its welfare state: How do welfare state changes affect the make-up of the nation state?

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 250-266

  Rothgang, Heinz ^a   Obinger, Herbert ^a   Leibfried, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Change; Corridor effects; Level effects; Nation state; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

NATIONAL PLANNING; OECD; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE IMPACT;

EID: 33748797131     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2006.00488.x     Document Type: Article

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