THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EUROPEAN WELFARE CAPITALISM

In this state-of-the-art work, Colin Hay and Daniel Wincott reassess welfare provision across the whole of Europe East, West and C entral and at the national and EU level. The book challenges much conventional wisdom about the welfare state, including the widel y accepted notion of a 'golden age' of welfare, the idea of a challenge posed by globalization, and the notion of the welfare state as a burden on competitiveness and a drain on economic performance.The authors put forward an alternative analysis of European welfa re capitali...[Read more]