The declining resistance of welfare states to change?

The Survival of the European Welfare State

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 19-36

  van Kersbergen, Kees ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203380314-9     Document Type: Chapter

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