Includes bibliographical references (pages 777-867) and index.
FIGURES; TABLES; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART ONE: PATHS OF DEVELOPMENT OF RICH DEMOCRACIES; PART TWO: THE WELFARE STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY; PART THREE: SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; Appendix A: Methods; Appendix B: Concepts and Measures of Left and Catholic Party Power; Appendix C: Social Spending, GNP, Tax Expenditures, and Housing Expenditures; Appendix D: Sector Spending Correlations; Appendix E: Family Policy; Appendix F: Estimating Reliance on Means Testing; Appendix G: Measures of Economic Performance; Appendix H: Measures of Central Bank Autonomy.
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Drawing on data covering the past 50 years and more than 400 interviews with top decision-makers, Wilensky provides a richly detailed account of the common problems modern governments confront and their contrasting styles of conflict resolution.