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      Welfare-State Retrenchment Revisited: Entitlement Cuts, Public Sector Restructuring, and Inegalitarian Trends in Advanced Capitalist Societies

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      World Politics
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          In recent years it has become commonplace for comparativists to emphasize the resilience of welfare states in advanced capitalist societies and the failure of neoliberal efforts to dismantle the welfare state. Challenging some tenets of the resilience thesis, this article seeks to broaden the discussion of welfare-state retrenchment. The authors argue that a sharp deceleration of social spending has occurred in most OECD countries since 1980, that welfare states have failed to offset the rise of market-generated inequality and insecurity, and that welfare programs have become less universalistic. They stress the distributive and political consequences of market-oriented reforms of the public sector.

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                Journal
                applab
                World Politics
                World Pol.
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                0043-8871
                1086-3338
                October 1998
                June 2011
                : 51
                : 01
                : 67-98
                Article
                10.1017/S0043887100007796
                b63504e6-173d-4024-946a-3aa53562db08
                © 1998
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