This study is the outcome of a one-month-long research trip to New Dehli in the year 2000. The paper addresses the relationship between national building and the functioning of the State on the one hand and the making of the Indian welfare system as it is today. At the same time – and, more...

Since the ideologically coloured meaning of the 'welfare state', implying a massive level of redistribution and high government spending in the field of social policy, does not match the reality of a number of today's welfare state systems, especially outside Europe, this article examines the...

This paper deals with the changing role of the state in the Dutch healthcare system. At the eve of the first oil crisis the Netherlands had a relatively compound healthcare system combining several characteristics of the three Western healthcare system types: National Health Service, social...

The search for the origins of the outbreak of the 2008 financial crisis resulted in questioning of the viability of a welfare state by some groups. Concerning the role of Greece in the eruption and linking its spending patterns with the country's welfare model, the survival of the whole concept...