Originally published in 1994 The Politics of the Welfare State looks at how the privatization and marketization of education, health and welfare services in the

Originally published in 1976, Freedom and the Welfare State, critiques the Welfare State in Britain and analyses the relationship between freedom and welfare. T

Originally published in 1981 Social Welfare and the Failure of the State looks at how the 1980s have ushered in an intensification on the debate of the role of

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1940 and 1994, draw together research by leading academics in the area of welfare and the state, and provi

Originally published in 1984, Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Claus Offe’s essays to appear in a single volume in English. The