Elsässer, Lea; Rademacher, Inga; Schäfer, Armin - In: Economic sociology : perspectives and conversations 16 (2015) 3, pp. 4-16
In this article, we shed new light on the question of the degree to which welfare retrenchment has taken place. Using disaggregated data in four spending categories over almost three decades, we show that most countries still spend more today than in 1980, but less than at the peak. While...
