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Welfare states under pressure — cash benefits in European welfare states over the last ten years
Author(s)	Mary Daly
Journal title	Journal of European Social Policy, vol 7, no 2, May 1997
Pages	pp 129-146
Keywords	Social welfare ; Social security benefits ; Social policy ; Comparison ; European Union ; Western Europe ; Norway.
Annotation	This article examines the substance of reform in European welfare states in the last ten years, and compares how cash transfers in the 15 member states of the European Union as well as Norway have fared. While the article is not theory-focused, consideration of some of the wider implications of the change process is a priority. It is important to examine not only how procedures and principles governing benefits have altered, but also whether and how a systematic pattern has developed across welfare states. The main focus of policy activity has been on pensions, unemployment benefits, parental leave and payments for the care of ill, elderly and incapacitated people. As a story of both cut-backs and expansion suggests, simplistic notions of convergence or divergence are not adequate in summing up what has happened. The article concludes with a consideration of how the analytical framework can be reconciled with the reform process.
Accession Number	CPA-980120203 A
Classmark	TY: JH: TM2: 48: WFC: 76: 76N
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