This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that
realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau …

This paper uses innovative democratic forums carried out in Germany, Norway, and the
United Kingdom to examine people's ideas about welfare-state priorities and future …

In this article, we investigate whether and, if so, to what extent, people's notions of solidarity
and their choices of justice principles are related to the type of welfare state regime they live …

Much political behaviour can be interpreted as the pursuit of more or less naked self-interest.
Occasionally, though, individuals do apparently exhibit some concern for their fellow human …

Traces how individuals fare over time in each of three types of welfare state: a social
democratic welfare regime in the Netherlands; a corporatist welfare regime in Germany; and …

My title has an air of paradox about it. Shouldn't any decent welfare state relieve poverty? Of
course it should. But in a well-ordered welfare state almost all therjob of relieving poverty will …

Enthusiasm for the expansion of markets in welfare reflects the currency of assumptions
derived from rational choice theory among policy-makers. This article reviews recent …

The middle way" and" laboratories of the world" are terms often used to characterize the
social and economic systems of the Nordic countries; 1 what is meant, of course, is that …

Author's note, 2013 Principles of social welfare was my second book. First published 1988
by Routledge, ISBN 0-415-00630-9 and 0-415-00631-7. The rights to publish have reverted …

A major finding within comparative welfare state research is the differences in welfare state
programs among the industrialized Western democracies. Contrary to most economic …