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Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States
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Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR27,00

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This book revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies with a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-521-72395-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum19.06.2015
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 19 mm
Gewicht522 g
Artikel-Nr.12776471
KatalogLibri
Datenquelle-Nr.A6878468
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Kees van Kersbergen is a Professor of Political Science of VU University Amsterdam. He served as director of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies until 2007 and has also been professor of political science at the Radboud University (Nijmegen). He is the author of Social Capitalism 1995), which won the Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Social Science, and co-editor of Expansion and Fragmentation. Internationalization, Political Change and the Transformation of the Nation State. Philip Manow is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz. Previously, he was a researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, and visiting fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Harvard, and at the Centre d'Etudes Europeennes, Sciences Po, Paris. His work has been published in numberous journals and collections, including European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Comparative Political Studies, The New Politics of the Welfare State (2001), and Federalism and the Welfare State (2008).