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Social Policy beyond Borders: The social question in transnational perspective

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A study of the problems caused by welfare states being exposed to the international environment. EC member states find themselves forced to "harmonise" their social policies to prevent workers from going to countries with generous benefits and employers to those with frugal provisions.

115 pages, Paperback

First published January 23, 2002

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Abram de Swaan

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Abram de Swaan (1942) is universiteitshoogleraar sociale wetenschap aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam sinds 2001 en vanaf 2007 emeritus. Hij was hoogleraar sociologie van 1973-2001. De Swaan was mede-oprichter en directeur van de Amsterdamse School voor Sociaalweten-schappelijk Onderzoek (1987-1997) en daarna voorzitter (tot 2007). Hij debuteerde in 1968 met Amerika in termijnen; een ademloos verslag uit de USA en promoveerde in 1973 cum laude op Coalition theories and cabinet formations.

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