The politics of justification : : party competition and welfare-state retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998 / / Christoffer Green-Pedersen.
Christoffer Green-Pedersen's insightful examination of political party strategy in Europe reveals strong links between party consensus and policy retrenchment, arguing that the former allows governments to frame retrenchment in a way that justifies it to the electorate. In the Netherlands, Gree...
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2002. |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Changing Welfare States
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (207 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From theories of expansion to theories of retrenchment
- 3. A framework for government choice on retrenchment
- 4. Research strategy and research design
- 5. Retrenchments in Denmark and the Netherlands
- 6. Dutch Politics and welfare-state retrenchment. How party competition produced consensus
- 7. Danish politics and welfare-state retrenchment: The difficulties of a right-wing government and the possibilities of a left-wing government
- 8. The evidence on balance and some quibbles
- 9. Party politics matter - summary and implications
- Appendix
- Summary
- Notes
- References
- Index