Description:
This book illuminates the productive nature of public/private entanglements. It departs from a well-established tradition of comparison between Western nation-states by using and mixing various scales of analysis (local, national, international and global).
Review Quotes:
'By placing the "productive entanglement" of private and public actors at the center of welfare history, this exciting and innovative collection uses empirically rich local studies to explore the many and diverse spaces in which private and public actors have long worked together to create and sustain mixed economies of welfare across modern Europe. The result is an arresting analysis in which social protection emerges as a multipolar, relational and evolving field populated by many different kinds of actors, both individual and collective. Their interactions have produced a diverse range of trajectories rooted in a shared sense of the value, need and demand for social welfare.'
Laura Lee Downs, European University Institute