The Crisis Imperative Crisis Rhetoric and Welfare State Reform in Belgium and the Netherlands in the Early 1990s

The Netherlands and Belgium exemplified the pathology of 'welfare without work' that characterized continental welfare states - until a political crisis in both countries produced a surprising divergence in scope and extent of policy change in the early 1990s. In Belgium, government announ...

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Main Author: Kuipers, Sanneke (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2006
Series:Changing Welfare States
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