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This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment are shaped by domestic politics and existing welfare state institutions.

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"""The great virtue of this book is that it brings together good empirical evidence and analysis of how welfare states respond to and manage crises over time, from a variety of settings."" - Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent, UK"

The great virtue of this book is that it brings together good empirical evidence and analysis of how welfare states respond to and manage crises over time, from a variety of settings. - Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent, UK

The great virtue of this book is that it brings together good empirical evidence and analysis of how welfare states respond to and manage crises over time, from a variety of settings. - Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent, UK Deep economic crisis are commonly understood as moments of fundamental welfare state truth. This new book by three leading experts provides an in depth understanding of the social policy consequences of three recent crises episodes. In their instructive, trenchant and coherent, institutional analysis, Peter Starke, Alexandra Kaasch, and Franca van Hooren challenge the prevailing crisis-catharsis conventional wisdom. Based on an in-depth comparative analysis of four small established welfare states (Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden), they explicate why a fundamental restructuring of social policy does not take root immediately after a shattering economic crisis as policy makers generally (and conservatively) try to hold on to established routines. Whatever you think about the welfare state in times of deep crisis you are bound to reconsider after having absorbed the highly persuasive, perceptive and nuanced, reflections of Starke, Kaasch and van Hooren. A must-read for scholars, advanced students and policy makers! - Anton Hemerijck, Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences and Professor in Institutional Policy Analysis, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Peter Starke is a Political Scientist at the University of Bremen, Germany. Recent publications include Radical Welfare State Retrenchment: A Comparative Analysis. Alexandra Kaasch is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. Previously she held a post-doctoral research position at the University of Bremen, Germany. Franca van Hooren is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Bremen, Germany. She obtained her PhD from the European University Institute, Italy.

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