Why Welfare States Persist : The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies Book

Contents

List of Figures and Tables....................vii
Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction: The Welfare State, Mass Opinion, and Embedded Preferences....................1
CHAPTER 1. Reaching for Mass Opinion....................12
CHAPTER 2. Do Policy Preferences Explain Welfare State Differences?....................34
CHAPTER 3. Retrenchment, Restructuring, Persistence....................61
CHAPTER 4. The Question of Convergence....................83
CHAPTER 5. Where Do Welfare State Preferences Come From?....................99
CHAPTER 6. The Patterning of Social Policy Responsiveness....................131
CHAPTER 7. Embedded Preferences and Welfare State Trajectories....................140
Notes....................157
References....................167
Index....................189