Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare

Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates surrounding the history and, still more importantly, the future of welfare in advanced industrialized states.

Comprehensively revised and rewritten, the third edition of the book embraces all the most important theoretical and empirical developments in wel...