Author: Stein Ringen

Discusses important aspects of the development of the welfare state in the Scandinavian countries and Iceland since the mid-1970s. It focuses on so...

First published in 1999, this volume is the fifth in a series on international studies of issues in social security. The series is initiated by the...

First published in 1999, this volume is the fifth in a series on international studies of issues in social security. The series is initiated by the...

Modern families are economic institutions of great productivity. They contribute as much to a society's economic well-being as does worker producti...

In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Brit...

Modern families are economic institutions of great productivity. They contribute as much to a society's economic well-being as does worker producti...

The Possibility of Politics explores the power of political reform, specifically reform of the modern welfare state. Can reform be effective if lim...

The Possibility of Politics explores the power of political reform, specifically reform of the modern welfare state. Can reform be effective if lim...

There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and ...

Times have not been kind to democracy. This book is in its defense. In the new century, the triumph of democracy at the end of the Cold War turne...