Radical Welfare State Retrenchment

Part I. Puzzles, Preliminaries and Prior Vulnerabilities

1. Introduction: An Empirical Puzzle
Peter Starke

2. Preliminaries: Measurement, Theories and Strategy of Comparison
Peter Starke

3. Prior Vulnerabilities: Where Would We Have Expected Retrenchment?
Peter Starke

Part II. New Zealand: An Extreme Case

4. The First Cutbacks
Peter Starke

5. Radical Retrenchment and Restructuring
Peter Starke

6. Retrenchment in New Zealand: Empirical Pattern, Causes and Consequences
Peter Starke

Part III. Retrenchment in Comparative Perspective

7. Putting an Extreme Case in Perspective: Retrenchment Across Countries
Peter Starke

8. Explaining the Cross-National Pattern
Peter Starke

Part IV. Conclusion

9. Retrenchment and the Limits of Downsizing: Lessons and Policy Implications
Peter Starke

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Social Care, Political Science, Politics of the Welfare State