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Author Brooks, Clem.

Title Why welfare states persist : the importance of public opinion in democracies / Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  320.513 B791w 2007    ---  Available
Description xii, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in communication, media, and public opinion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the welfare state, mass opinion, and embedded preferences -- Reaching for mass opinion -- Do policy preferences explain welfare state differences? -- Retrenchment, restructuring, persistence -- The question of convergence -- Where do welfare state preferences come from? -- The patterning of social policy responsiveness -- Embedded preferences and welfare state trajectories -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Subject Welfare state -- Public opinion.
Added Author Manza, Jeff.
ISBN 0226075842 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226075834 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226075839 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226075846 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2517287
YDXCP 2517286

 
    
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