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The politics of justification: party competition and welfare-state retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998

By Christoffer , Green-Pedersen

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9053565906, 9789053565902
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2525858 bytes)
Pages
207\209
Time added
2020-11-29 04:09:53

Description

Christoffer Green-Pedersen's insightful examination of political party strategy in Europe reveals strong links between party consensus and policy retrenchment, arguing that the former allows governments to frame retrenchment in a way that justifies it to the electorate. In the Netherlands, Green-Pedersen shows, such consensus emerged in the mid-1980s, allowing the government to implement a number of welfare retrenchments; in Denmark, consensus did not emerge until the Social Democratic Party re-entered government in 1993, leading to less welfare-state retrenchment than in the Netherlands.

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