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Why welfare states persist : the importance of public opinion in democracies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks, Clem
Other Authors: Manza, Jeff
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Series:Studies in communication, media, and public opinion.
Subjects:
Welfare state > Public opinion.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the welfare state, mass opinion, and embedded preferences
  • Reaching for mass opinion
  • Do policy preferences explain welfare state differences?
  • Retrenchment, restructuring, persistence
  • The question of convergence
  • Where do welfare state preferences come from?
  • The patterning of social policy responsiveness
  • Embedded preferences and welfare state trajectories
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.