Taxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Alvin Rabushka...

The coalition of the willing and the breakthrough of the welfare state : the political history of the Danish people's pension / Klaus Petersen & Jørn Henrik Petersen -- From Bismarck to the new pension orthodoxy : the historical development of the pension system in Hungary / Dorottya Szikra --...

The state of poverty in the United States and Western Europe: five theoretical approaches seeking to explain the variance -- The challenge to America -- The historical experience -- Attitudes, beliefs, and values -- System differences as explanations -- The role of political elites -- The role...

Introduction -- Consistency and viability of economic systems -- Consistency and viability of market capitalism -- Great Britain. From Atlee's postwar consensus and welfare state to Thatcher's free market economy -- Postwar Japan: from the economic miracle to the bubble economy -- The European...

Durch den demographischen Wandel und die Zunahme der Pflegebedürftigen, den Rückgang familiärer Pflegepotentiale sowie den Fachkräftemangel in der Pflege geraten die nationalen Care-Regime unter Druck. Hier setzt die Vergleichsstudie von Diana Auth an. Sie zeichnet die pflegepolitischen...