dc.contributor.author | GIGER, Nathalie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-07-05T14:17:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-07-05T14:17:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.citation | London/New York, Routledge, 2011, Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare, 13 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9780415591980 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/22658 | |
dc.description.abstract | This book contributes to the existing literature by providing an empirical analysis of the electoral implications of social policy. Giger asks the basic research question: What are the electoral consequences of social policy performance and retrenchment? More specifically, the following questions are addressed in order to provide a systematic test of the topic: Is retrenchment indeed completely unpopular? Do people punish the government for bad performance in the field of social policy? And what are the political implications of such a punishment reaction; does it affect the government composition? It shows empirically that the risks of welfare state retrenchment to incumbent governments may be lower than previously thought, and presents a theoretical framework for re-examining the impact of retrenchment initiatives on election outcome. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | London/New York, Routledge | en |
dc.title | The Risk of Social Policy?: The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries | en |
dc.type | Book | en |
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