Radical Welfare State Retrenchment A

Welfare state retrenchment has been puzzling political scientists--and for that matter, the general public--for years. Why should politicians who wish to be re-elected endeavor to scale back highly popular welfare entitlements? What are the political incentives and opportunities that make such a course of action likely? This book offers an international comparative analysis of welfare state retrenchment, and uniquely includes an indepth examination of its most radical deployment.

PETER STARKE is Research Associate at the TranState Research Centre, University of Bremen, Germany.

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Puzzles, Preliminaries and Prior Vulnerabilities
Introduction: An Empirical Puzzle	p. 3
Preliminaries: Measurement, Theories and Strategy of Comparison	p. 13
Prior Vulnerabilities: Where Would We Have Expected Retrenchment?	p. 46
New Zealand: An Extreme Case
The First Cutbacks	p. 67
Radical Retrenchment and Restructuring	p. 94
Retrenchment in New Zealand : Empirical Pattern, Causes and Consequences	p. 132
Retrenchment in Comparative Perspective
Putting an Extreme Case in Perspective: Retrenchment Across Countries	p. 155
Explaining the Cross-National Pattern	p. 185
Conclusion
Retrenchment and the Limits of Downsizing: Lessons and Policy Implications	p. 207
Appendix	p. 215
Notes	p. 219
References	p. 236
Index	p. 263
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