The Welfare State is a key policy issue of the 1990s. The essays in this book depart from much of the recent economic debate in emphasising the positive contrib

On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded afte

The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to com

Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations

Once heralded in the 1950s and 1960s as a model welfare state, Sweden is now in transition and in trouble since its economic plunge in the early 1990s. This vol