The politics of justification: party competition and welfare-state retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998

The Politics of Justification is an investigation of welfare retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1982-1998. Welfare retrenchment is politically highly controversial, but still governments do retrench. This book argues that governments can implement retrenchment if they can achieve a party political consensus allowing them to frame retrenchment in a way that makes it seems justified to the electorate. In the Netherlands, such a consensus emerged in the mid 1980s due to the power of the CDA. It has allowed Dutch government to implement a number of welfare retrenchments. In Denmark, a co... Mehr ...

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Verfasser: Green-Pedersen, Christoffer
Dokumenttyp: Monographie
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Verlag/Hrsg.: Amsterdam Univ. Press
Schlagwörter: Sozialwissenschaften / Soziologie / Politikwissenschaft / Social sciences / sociology / anthropology / Political science / Allgemeines / spezielle Theorien und Schulen / Methoden / Entwicklung und Geschichte der Sozialpolitik / politische Willensbildung / politische Soziologie / politische Kultur / Basic Research / General Concepts and History of Social Policy / Political Process / Elections / Political Sociology / Political Culture / Wohlfahrtsstaat / Dänemark / Niederlande / Sparpolitik / Legitimation / soziale Sicherung / Parteipolitik / Sozialstaat / Parteiensystem / Sozialdemokratie / Sozialabbau / welfare state / Denmark / Netherlands / austerity policy / social security / party politics / social welfare state / party system / social democracy / social dismantling
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