The politics of retrenchment

Peter Starke

Chapter 3 in Handbook on Austerity, Populism and the Welfare State, 2021, pp 25-40 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapter provides an overview of theories and findings on the politics of welfare state retrenchment since Paul Pierson’s seminal contributions on the topic. Starting from an account of the concept of welfare state retrenchment in the comparative social science literature, I reconstruct the main causal mechanisms used to explain the politics of retrenchment in advanced democratic welfare states. Many of these mechanisms and predictions have been empirically tested, challenged or extended by subsequent research. The chapter gives an overview of the empirical state of the art before pointing to some remaining gaps and promising avenues for future research.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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