The Nordic countries have rather homogenous populations and similar health care systems,
and one could therefore expect comparable levels of psychopathology and psychotropic …

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The
gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

O sucesso de Tempo comprado, dentro e fora dos meios acadêmicos, surpreendeu o
próprio autor, o sociólogo alemão Wolfgang Streeck. O livro traz uma interpretação original …

In the early 1990s the Swedish welfare system was struck by capital flight and a national
financial crisis creating severe problems for the Swedish economy. This crisis became the …

The idea that the Nordic countries make up a special group or 'family'of democratic,
welfarecapitalist countries is widely accepted, and is reflected in a number of studies. A …

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-
Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's' Varieties of Capitalism'typology …

La crisi in cui versa il capitalismo democratico tiene tutti col fiato sospeso e provoca un
diffuso senso di impotenza. Nel tentativo di affrontare problemi prima inimmaginabili si …

Desde 2008, las democracias prósperas de Occidente se enfrentan a una crisis financiera y
fiscal que corroe los fundamentos mismos del Estado de bienestar fundado al fin de la …

This chapter focuses on the principles, policies and outcomes in the Nordic welfare state. It
introduces the goals of the Nordic model in terms of key principles like universality and …