The paper constitutes the first detailed comparative study of Southern health care systems. It begins by analysing the reforms they underwent during the seventies and eighties, that is, the introduction of national health services in Italy, Portugal, Greece, and Spain. The second section of the...

The paper redresses an imbalance in the study of the welfare state: the comparative neglect of health care programmes as sources of evidence about the changing politics of the welfare state. It explains why health care should be central to our understanding of the welfare state; summarises the...

Welfare state policies in the health sector centred on medical care and cost containment. The AIDS epidemic challenged the central position of the medical model and introduced new public policies at the periphery of the welfare state, in the field of prevention and public health management. The...

This paper is a step towards an explanation of the redistributive impact of ruling parties. It proposes a new theoretical interpretation regarding some changes in the social security systemt that could have affected inequality trends in Britain in the 1980s. I control the validity of this...

Transnationalism has two interpretations. In the first one, transnationalism refers to some combination of plural-civic memberships , economic involvements, social networks, and cultural identities reaching across and linking people and institutions in two or more nation-states in diverse,...

Two transformations are currently under way in Western Europe, one rapid, the other slow, but both stressful. In the labour market, mass unemployment and work flexibilisation have endermined personal security and unrevelled social cohesion. In domestic life, the demise of the male breadwinner...

The objective of this paper is to analyse how different countries approach the objective of equity in the provision of long-term care. Explicitly or implicitly, welfare state definitions and social policy definitions include notions such as equity, justice or equality, theyr are even at the core...

Nous faisons l'hyothese que ce sont notamment les configurations institutionnelles particulieres des differents systemes de protection sociale qui permettent de comprendre non seulement les differences d'enjeux politiques de la crise de l'Etat-providence, mais encore les differences dans les...