This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, a
Creating the Welfare State investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state
"The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today's welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public sector worke
In The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey, author Erdem Yörük provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfa
Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations