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The Welfare State as Transnational Event: Evidence from Sequences of Policy Adoption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Andrew Abbott  and
Stanley DeViney
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Students of the welfare state have long speculated about the sequence in which welfare programs were adopted. Worker’s compensation, for example, has generally been adopted early by the various countries, while family allowances have come later. The order of these programs is important both for its inherent interest and for its bearing on theories of the welfare state.

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Social Science History , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , Summer 1992 , pp. 245 - 274
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1992 

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