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Loading... The Politics of Justification: Party Competition and Welfare-State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998 (Amsterdam University Press - Amsterdam Archaeological Studies)by Christoffer Green-Pedersen
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Christoffer Green-Pedersen's insightful examination of political party strategy in Europe reveals strong links between party consensus and policy retrenchment, arguing that the former allows governments to frame retrenchment in a way that justifies it to the electorate. In the Netherlands, Green-Pedersen shows, such consensus emerged in the mid-1980s, allowing the government to implement a number of welfare retrenchments; in Denmark, consensus did not emerge until the Social Democratic Party re-entered government in 1993, leading to less welfare-state retrenchment than in the Netherlands. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)361.9489Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems and services Biography; History by Place Europe ScandinaviaLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |