{"product_id":"beyond-the-welfare-state-christopher-pierson-9780745635217","title":"Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates surrounding the history and, still more importantly, the future of welfare in advanced industrialized states. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensively revised and rewritten, the third edition of the book embraces all the most important theoretical and empirical developments in welfare state studies of recent years. Working within an explicitly comparative framework, the book draws on a wealth of international evidence to survey what are now the most pressing issues concerning the future of welfare: among them, globalization, demographic change, declining fertility, postindustrialism and immigration. It draws extensively on the explosion of work on welfare states that has emerged within the North American political science community over the past ten years, as well as giving detailed attention to developments in the UK, and in continental and northern Europe and beyond. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The third edition of Beyond the Welfare State? remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the complex of issues that surround welfare reform. It will be required reading for anyone who wants to come to terms with what is really at stake in arguments about the future of welfare.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Pierson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745635210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745635217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Christopher Pierson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245371289855,"sku":"9780745635217","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28403598-efd9-4115-9285-cdf884c9b10e.jpg?v=1693927660","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-the-welfare-state-christopher-pierson-9780745635217","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}