This paper surveys the debate regarding Esping-Andersen's typology of welfare states and
reviews the modified or alternative typologies ensuing from this debate. We confine …

Drawing on recent work and data on social protection in the developing world, this essay
evaluates the current state of the art and suggests several important new lines of research …

Throughout the twentieth century, much of the population in Latin America lacked access to
social protection. Since the 1990s, however, social policy for millions of outsiders-rural …

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 …

While their power is declining, unions and workers remain prominent actors in society.
Therefore, there is a need to bring power resource theory back to the analytical forefront in …

Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing
nature of welfare states in Western societies. Gøsta Esping-Andersen, one of the foremost …

Based on quantitative indicators for fifteen advanced countries between 1974 and 2005, and
case studies of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Ireland, this article …

In some western European countries trade unions and employers' organizations share
responsibility with government for maintaining order and efficiency in the labour market as a …

Christian democracy has been the most successful political movement in post-war Western
Europe yet its crucial impact on the development of the modern European welfare state has …

This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that
occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals …