The Risk of Social Policy?: The Electoral Consequences of Welfare State Retrenchment and Social Policy Performance in OECD Countries
β Scribed by Nathalie Giger
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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