Welfare state retrenchment is widely seen as a highly unpopular endeavour and, therefore,
as politically difficult to pursue. This assumption has underpinned most of the political …

Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some
more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these …

During the last twenty-five years, housing policy in Sweden has radically changed. Once
forming a pillar of the comprehensive welfare system, abbreviated the “Swedish model,” …

This book confronts one of the most fiercely contested issues in current political debates:
how is welfare state retrenchment possible in modern democracies despite the welfare …

This thought-provoking book provides an in-depth analysis of the working poor
phenomenon and its causes across welfare regimes, and identifies the most efficient policy …

In this article, we explore the interaction between female and male employment, parenting
responsibilities and family policy in Russia and Sweden. The study is based first on …

This chapter explores the roots of redistributive social solidarity in the developed
democracies. Banting and Kymlicka (Chapter1, this volume) define social solidarity as a …

Cutbacks in thirteen Swedish transfer programmes are analysed to evaluate the argument
that explaining welfare retrenchment is a different enterprise from explaining welfare …

Proceeding from an historical-analytical reconstruction of the development of collectively
negotiated benefits in Germany and the Netherlands, this paper investigates the role and …

Within the literature on retrenchment policies, the 'solidarity-decline thesis' is discussed. It is
argued that current welfare state restructuring leads to a decrease in the actual social …