Background The past decade has witnessed a growing body of research on welfare state
characteristics and health inequalities but the picture is, despite this, inconsistent. We aim to …

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very
different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine …

Welfare chauvinism has become an important element in the agenda of the populist radical
right. This article proposes a novel argument to explain variation in the strength of welfare …

The Nordic countries–Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland—have attracted attention in
recent years. Some elements of the Nordic model—particularly the welfare state—are well …

In 2008 Ireland experienced one of the most dramatic economic crises of any economy in
the world. It remains at the heart of the international crisis, sitting uneasily between the US …

The Nordic Voter is the first book-length comparative analysis of voting behaviour in the five
Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. Leading scholars from …

Names: Kamali, Masoud, editor.| Jönsson, Jessica H., 1981–editor. Title: Neoliberalism,
nordic welfare states and social work: current and future challenges/edited by Masoud …

Nordic welfare states are known for a unique combination of equity and efficiency and for
political institutions facilitating compromise and consensus between conflicting interests …

In this study, we examine the self-reported subjective well-being (SWB) of youth who are 'not
in employment, education or training'(NEET) across 24 countries in Europe. Theorizing from …