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'Welfare states do indeed shape the democratic public, but they do it in highly contingent and contextually dependent ways. This is the main message from this meticulously researched and lucidly presented volume. By showing how and under what conditions policy feedback takes place it makes a major contribution to the welfare state literature. A must-read for any scholar in the field.' -- Stefan Svallfors, Umea University, Sweden 'Every chapter of this book is full of rigorous research and interesting results, and its contents should be carefully absorbed by any policy-maker contemplating a transition from means-tested to universal benefits.' -- Citizens Income 'This crucial volume significantly advances the study of policy feedbacks. With contributions from many subfields and methodological approaches, it offers both sophisticated theorizing and new empirical examples that show how policies make politics in a variety of ways. Innovative research designs provide more convincing inference than ever. And the normative questions engaged about welfare performance, evaluation, participation, and accountability could not be more important or timely in this era of austerity and discord over the future of welfare states.' -- Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

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Edited by Staffan Kumlin, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics, University of Berne, Switzerland

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