Chapter 1 Scaling and spacing welfare reform: making sense of welfare in rural places
Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 978-1-84950-918-3, eISBN: 978-1-84950-919-0
Publication date: 31 March 2010
Abstract
The welfare state is certainly paradoxical. On the one hand, it is extraordinary mundane, concerned with the minutiae of the pension and benefit rights of millions of citizens. On the other, the sheer scale of its growth is one of the most remarkable features of the post-war capitalist world and it remains on of the dominant, if sometimes unnoticed, institutions of the modern world. (Pierson, 1998, p. 208)
Citation
Milbourne, P. (2010), "Chapter 1 Scaling and spacing welfare reform: making sense of welfare in rural places", Milbourne, P. (Ed.) Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-1922(2010)0000015003
Publisher
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