Review Essay: The new politics and scholarship of the welfare state

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Giaimo, S. and Manow, P. (1999) `Adapting the Welfare State. The Case of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany and the United States', Comparative Political Studies 32 (8): 967-1000.

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Huber, E. and Stephens, J.D. (2001) Development and Crisis of Welfare States. Parties and Policies in Global Markets. Chicago, IL: Chicago UP.

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Kitschelt, H. (2001) `Partisan Competition and Welfare State Retrenchment: When do Politicians Choose Unpopular Policies?', in P. Pierson (ed.) The New Politics of the Welfare State, pp. 265-302. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Kuhnle, S. (2000) `European Welfare Lessons of the 1990s', in S. Kuhnle (ed.) Survival of the European Welfare State, pp. 234-8. London and New York: Routledge.

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Pierson, P. (1994) Dismantling the Welfare State: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment in Britain and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

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Pierson, P. (2000) `Three Worlds of Welfare State Research', Comparative Political Studies 33 (6-7): 791-821.

Pierson, P. (2001a) `Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies', in P. Pierson (ed.) The New Politics of the Welfare State, pp. 410-56. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Pierson, P. (2001b) `Post-industrial Pressures on the Mature Welfare States', in P. Pierson (ed.) The New Politics of the Welfare State, pp. 80-104. Oxford: Oxford UP.

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Ross, F. (2000b) `Framing Welfare Reform in Affluent Societies: Rendering Restructuring More Palatable?', Journal of Public Policy 20 (2): 169-93.

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van Kersbergen, K. (forthcoming) `Comparative Politics and the Welfare State', in H. Keman (ed.) Comparative Democratic Politics. London: Sage .

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