Danes love sharing, caring and communal singing, Auld Lang Syne, 99 bottles of Carlsberg, and public welfare for all. This sounds too good to be true - and it is. Like every great fairy tale, the model welfare state has a dark side. Carsten Jensen, tax-funded welfare authority at Aarhus...

De-industrialization constitutes one of the main structural transformations of Western economies since the end of World War II. It has been argued that de-industrialization leads to expanding welfare programs as a means to generate social protection against the risk of skills redundancy when...

Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 -- Modernization, human biology, and a tale of two domains -- Chapter 2 -- The labor market bias of the welfare state literature -- Modernization and the origins of thewelfare state literature -- Power resources and political...