Social democratic reforms of the welfare state: Germany and the UK compared

Modernising the Welfare State: The Blair Legacy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 235-254

  Seeleib Kaiser, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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