The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development. By Isabella Mares. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii + 319 pp. Figures, tables, references, index. Cloth, $65; paper, $24. ISBN:cloth 0-521-82741-8; paper 0-521-53477-1.

2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-586
Author(s):  
Jan-Otmar Hesse
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
State Development ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Welfare State Development

Diverging Paths

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Luyten
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
National Level ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
State Development ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Welfare State Development ◽  
The Impact

For the Netherlands and Belgium in the twentieth century, occupation is a key concept to understand the impact of the war on welfare state development. The occupation shifted the balance of power between domestic social forces: this was more decisive for welfare state development than the action of the occupier in itself. War and occupation did not result exclusively in more cooperation between social classes: some interest groups saw the war as a window of opportunity to develop strategies resulting in more social conflict. Class cooperation was often part of a political strategy to gain control over social groups or to legitimate social reforms. The world wars changed the scale of organization of social protection, from the local to the national level: after World War II social policy became a mission for the national state. For both countries, war endings had more lasting effects for welfare state development than the occupation itself.

Measuring is Believing! Improving Conventional Indicators of Welfare State Development

2009 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri ◽  
Ricardo Aláez-Aller ◽  
Pablo Díaz-de-Basurto
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
State Development ◽  
Welfare State Development
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