Bringing the state building approach back in: new perspectives on Welfare state development in a changing European context
Abstract
In his fascinating study, The Boundaries of Welfare, Maurizio Ferrera demonstrates how European integration has impacted national welfare states through channels which are often overlooked in the literature on European social policy. He develops a sophisticated theoretical framework, taking Stein Rokkan’s work on state-building as a starting point, and applies this to the study of welfare states (...).