Welfare-state retrenchment: The partisan effect revisited

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 426-444

  Amable, Bruno ^a   Gatti, Donatella ^b   Schumacher, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; INSURANCE SYSTEM; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; PUBLIC SPENDING; SOCIAL SECURITY; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; WELFARE PROVISION;

EID: 33750336691     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grj025     Document Type: Article

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