The politics of justification: party competition and welfare-state retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998

Christoffer Green-Pedersen's insightful examination of political party strategy in Europe reveals strong links between party consensus and policy retrenchment, arguing that the former allows governments to frame retrenchment in a way that justifies it to the electorate. In the Netherlands, Gree...

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1. Verfasser: Green-Pedersen, Christoffer 1970- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2002
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Zusammenfassung:Christoffer Green-Pedersen's insightful examination of political party strategy in Europe reveals strong links between party consensus and policy retrenchment, arguing that the former allows governments to frame retrenchment in a way that justifies it to the electorate. In the Netherlands, Green-Pedersen shows, such consensus emerged in the mid-1980s, allowing the government to implement a number of welfare retrenchments; in Denmark, consensus did not emerge until the Social Democratic Party re-entered government in 1993, leading to less welfare-state retrenchment than in the Netherlands
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ISBN:9789048505159
DOI:10.1017/9789048505159

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