All scholars interested in welfare-state analysis need this book with its new and refreshing analysis of this specific model. This book provides a compelling and rigorous analysis, which by bringing scholars from different disciplines together, casts new light and insight into the Scandinavian model.

Foreword - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Welfare States Research Core; B.Greve -THE SCANDINAVIAN MODEL AND THE VARIETY OF WELFARE MODELS - Do the Comparative Models describe the Reality?; T.Boje - Can we Define a European Welfare State Model?; P.Baldwin - Welfare State and Development Models; B.Amoroso - ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM - Macroeconomic Analysis and the Welfare State: a Postkeynesian View; J.Jespersen - Different Ways of Financing the Welfare State and its Distributional Consequences; B.Greve - The Nordic Welfare Model and the European Union; R.Ervik & S.Kunhle - WELFARE POLICY AND ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYSIS - The Impact of Local Institutional Change on the Local Democracy in the Nordic Type of Welfare State; P.Bogason - Local Government in Denmark in a Period of Political Reconstruction: a Scandinavian Perspective; S.Villadsen -Post-fordism and the State; B.Jessop - From Paternalistic Workfare States to Discount Welfare States: Eastern European Welfare Systems in Comparative Perspective; K.Nielsen - Beyond the Welfare State: Planning for a Welfare Society; F.Archibugi - Bibliography - Index