Welfare state is often perceived as a response to help people coping with shocks caused by economic down turn. However, as argued by Hamnett, welfare state can directly assist economic restructuring. Thus, social policies can be responses to unsatisfied social needs or be proactive measures to...

type="graphical" xml:id="gpol12144-abs-0001" <p>While pursuing high economic growth, policy makers must be ready to bear the high economic risk accompanying that growth. The best policy is to find a realistic combination where the needed economic growth is pursued with controllable financial...</p>

Purpose: This study aims to draw on the complexity theory and uses a non-an asymmetrical method – fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to test the core tenets of complexity theory, namely, asymmetry, equifinality and causal complexity and valence reversals or conjunction with a...