Drawing together leading international experts such as Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y. Shapiro, Stefan Svallfors and Wim van Oorschot, this volume addresses issues of

Drawing together leading international experts such as Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y. Shapiro, Stefan Svallfors and Wim van Oorschot, this volume addresses issues of

This book examines the long-term development of the Irish welfare state since the late nineteenth century. It contests the consensus view that Ireland, like oth

The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are