Democracy and the Welfare State : The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity

Columbia University Press

Democracy and the Welfare State\nby Alice Kessler\u2013harris\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alice Kessler\u2013harris\nTitle: Democracy and the Welfare State\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political structures: democracy\nPublisher: Columbia University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9780231180344\nISBN-10: 0231180349\nRRP: \u00A3100.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThough the \u201Ctwo Wests,\u201D Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights. In Democracy and the Welfare State, leading historians and social scientists rethink this history in light of global transformations of the economic order and the onslaught of neoliberalism and right-wing populism.\n\nThough the \u201Ctwo Wests,\u201D Europe and t.