Böcker av Christopher (University of Nottingham) Pierson

* Third edition of an established key text on the welfare state. * Offers comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to classic and contemporary debates, as well as the future of welfare. * Draws on an international range of examples and literature, including US, continental and northern Europe.

aeo This book critically confronts the new orthodoxy of a the end of socialisma , and offers a systematic critique of leading models of socialist thought focusing, in particular, on market socialism. aeo The author assesses the place of socialism in the future, and defends a vigorous new conception of socialist politics.