Comparative Analyses of Stateness and State Action: What Can We Learn From Patterns of Expenditure?

United in Diversity?: Comparing Social Models in Europe and America

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gilbert, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Europe; Public expenditure; Public spending; Social policy; Social welfare; United states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195376630.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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