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The politics of justification : party competition and welfare-state retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998 / Christoffer Green-Pedersen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green-Pedersen, Christoffer, author.
- Series:
- Changing Welfare States
- Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--Denmark.
- Public welfare.
- Public welfare--Netherlands.
- Social security--Government policy--Denmark.
- Social security.
- Social security--Government policy--Netherlands.
- Political parties--Denmark.
- Political parties.
- Political parties--Netherlands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From theories of expansion to theories of retrenchment
- 3. A framework for government choice on retrenchment
- 4. Research strategy and research design
- 5. Retrenchments in Denmark and the Netherlands
- 6. Dutch Politics and welfare-state retrenchment. How party competition produced consensus
- 7. Danish politics and welfare-state retrenchment: The difficulties of a right-wing government and the possibilities of a left-wing government
- 8. The evidence on balance and some quibbles
- 9. Party politics matter - summary and implications
- Appendix
- Summary
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9786610958849
- 9781280958847
- 1280958847
- 9789048505159
- 9048505151
- 9780585496443
- 0585496447
- OCLC:
- 667094452
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