The Politics of Justification : Party Competition and Welfare-State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998 /
Green-Pedersen, Christoffer
The Politics of Justification : Party Competition and Welfare-State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998 / Christoffer Green-Pedersen. - 1 online resource (224 p.) - Amsterdam Archaeological Studies .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From theories of expansion to theories of retrenchment -- 3. A framework for government choice on retrenchment -- 4. Research strategy and research design -- 5. Retrenchments in Denmark and the Netherlands -- 6. Dutch Politics and welfare-state retrenchment. How party competition produced consensus -- 7. Danish politics and welfare-state retrenchment: The difficulties of a right-wing government and the possibilities of a left-wing government -- 8. The evidence on balance and some quibbles -- 9. Party politics matter - summary and implications -- Appendix -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Index
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Christoffer Green-Pedersen's insightful examination of political party strategy in Europe reveals strong links between party consensus and policy retrenchment, arguing that the former allows governments to frame retrenchment in a way that justifies it to the electorate. In the Netherlands, Green-Pedersen shows, such consensus emerged in the mid-1980s, allowing the government to implement a number of welfare retrenchments; in Denmark, consensus did not emerge until the Social Democratic Party re-entered government in 1993, leading to less welfare-state retrenchment than in the Netherlands.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9789053565902 9789048505159
10.1515/9789048505159 doi
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
361.9489
The Politics of Justification : Party Competition and Welfare-State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998 / Christoffer Green-Pedersen. - 1 online resource (224 p.) - Amsterdam Archaeological Studies .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From theories of expansion to theories of retrenchment -- 3. A framework for government choice on retrenchment -- 4. Research strategy and research design -- 5. Retrenchments in Denmark and the Netherlands -- 6. Dutch Politics and welfare-state retrenchment. How party competition produced consensus -- 7. Danish politics and welfare-state retrenchment: The difficulties of a right-wing government and the possibilities of a left-wing government -- 8. The evidence on balance and some quibbles -- 9. Party politics matter - summary and implications -- Appendix -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Index
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
Christoffer Green-Pedersen's insightful examination of political party strategy in Europe reveals strong links between party consensus and policy retrenchment, arguing that the former allows governments to frame retrenchment in a way that justifies it to the electorate. In the Netherlands, Green-Pedersen shows, such consensus emerged in the mid-1980s, allowing the government to implement a number of welfare retrenchments; in Denmark, consensus did not emerge until the Social Democratic Party re-entered government in 1993, leading to less welfare-state retrenchment than in the Netherlands.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9789053565902 9789048505159
10.1515/9789048505159 doi
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
361.9489