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programs—spill over the boundaries of the government bureaucracies created to manage them. Where the problems strain the boundar ...

Boston, J., Martin, J., Pallot, J., Walsh,P. 1996 .Public Management: The New Zealand Model. Auckland: Oxford University Press. ...

Miles,R.E. 1978. The origin and meaning of Miles’ law.Public Administration Review, 38 : 399 – 403. Okun,A. 1974 .Equality and E ...

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it was only when the welfare state was less ‘‘taken for granted,’’ in Heclo’s words, that scholars really started wondering what ...

is whether these diverse inquiries are also leading to a more general picture, or simply making more complex and foreboding the ...

original design of many social programs and continue to shape public perceptions of them, particularly in the United States (Bro ...

In pointing toward this more ambitious claim, the new scholarship on race risks running aground on two opposed shoals. On the on ...

relationship to the labor market diVered from men’s and the degree to which ostensibly self-supporting male workers were support ...

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The recent sweeping work of Peter Swenson, Capitalists Against Markets ( 2002 )—which compares the fate of social reforms in the ...

interests. Once legislation is in place, after all, employers may simply believe they cannot realistically overturn it, or the p ...

That has started to change, but not nearly as quickly or as fully as in the other areas we have reviewed. Much of the credit for ...

prevalent and generous at higher ends of the wage scale, and tax subsidies, because they forgive tax that would otherwise be owe ...

The beginning of the recent wave of interest in retrenchment can be conveni- ently dated to Pierson’s groundbreaking book on wel ...

Perhaps most important, in emphasizing aYrmative decisions, the retrenchment literature also excludes from consideration a wide ...

complexities of social welfare policyandprovide relatively simpliWed accounts that add to our common knowledge. It is fair to sa ...

The LIS assembles and harmonizes data from cross-sectional surveys of house- holds, which include fairly comprehensive measures ...

benefactor may be next year’s beneWciary. Moreover, recent research suggests that the eVect of the welfare state on these income ...

(Pierson and Skocpol 2000 ; Skocpol 1992 ), there has emerged a relatively powerful set of generalizations about the eVect of pu ...