The rise of nontraded services undermines this specialization and increases demands for more flexible labor markets."--BOOK JACKET.

What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfar

Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State investigates political thought under the conditions of the postwar welfare state, focusing on the Federal Republic

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the h