Towards an open functional approach to welfare state change: Pressures, ideas, and blame avoidance

Public Administration

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 840-854

  Vis, Barbara ^a   Van Kersbergen, Kees ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; INSURANCE SYSTEM; REFORM PROCESS; WELFARE REFORM;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84890241869     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2012.02071.x     Document Type: Article

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