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1. Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited

   Edited by Lauri Karvonen, Stein Kuhnle

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan's classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology, and assesses...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
2. Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

   The Nordic Experience

   By Nanna Kildal, Stein Kuhnle

   Series: Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State

   This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe. Welfare programs and institutions tend to be analyzed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programs are essentially expressions of moral...

   Published December 7th 2006 by Routledge
3. The Survival of the European Welfare State

   Edited by Stein Kuhnle

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   'Crisis'. 'Breakdown'. 'Dismantlement.' Since the 1970's, these have become the catchphrases used to describe the condition of the welfare states in Europe, in academic and media analyses alike. This book provides an alternative, more optimistic interpretation. It aims to increase both theoretical...

   Published April 12th 2000 by Routledge