Risk inequality and welfare states : social policy preferences, development, and dynamics / Philipp Rehm, Ohio State University.
The transformation of night-watchman states into welfare states is one of the most notable societal developments in recent history. In 1880, not a single country had a nationally compulsory social policy program. A few decades later, every single one of today's rich democracies had adopted prog...
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Theoretical framework
- Preference formation
- Risk perceptions
- Risk pools and social policy generosity
- Risk pools and retrenchment
- German reunification
- Risk pools and social policy adoption
- Crises and social policy.