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Investigating Welfare State Change

The ‘Dependent Variable Problem’ in Comparative Analysis
Edited by
Jochen Clasen
and
Nico A. Siegel
With contributions from leading international scholars, this important book presents a comprehensive examination of conventional indicators (such as social spending), available alternatives (including social rights and conditionality), as well as principal concepts of how to capture change (for example convergence and de-familization). By providing an in-depth discussion of the most salient aspects of the ‘dependent variable problem’, the editors aim to enable a more cumulative build-up of empirical evidence and contribute to constructive theoretical debates about the causes of welfare state change. The volume also offers valuable suggestions as to how the problem might be tackled within empirical cross-national analyses of modern welfare states.
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Monograph Book
Published:
26 Jul 2007
Print ISBN:
9781845427399
eISBN:
9781847206916
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781847206916
Pages:
352
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2010 and before
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