Democracy and the Welfare State - The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity

Zusammenfassung Though the “two Wests,” Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights. In Democracy and the Welfare State, leading historians and social scientists rethink this history in light of global transformations of the economic order and the onslaught of neoliberalism and right-wing populism.

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• Authors: Alice Kessler-Harris, Alice Vaudagna Kessler-Harris
• Assisted by: Alice Kessler-Harris (Editor), Kessler-Harris Alice (Editor), Maurizio Vaudagna (Editor), Vaudagna Maurizio (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780231180344
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18034-4
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, Europe, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Political structures: democracy, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies