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About: Retrenchment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3585 publications have been published within this topic receiving 72769 citations.


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Paul Pierson1
01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In this article, the authors lay the foundation for an understanding of welfare state retrenchment and highlight the factors that limit or facilitate the success of such a strategy, using quantitative and qualitative data from four cases (Britain, United States, Germany, and Sweden).
Abstract: This essay seeks to lay the foundation for an understanding of welfare state retrenchment. Previous discussions have generally relied, at least implicitly, on a reflexive application of theories designed to explain welfare state expansion. Such an approach is seriously flawed. Not only is the goal of retrenchment (avoiding blame for cutting existing programs) far different from the goal of expansion (claiming credit for new social benefits), but the welfare state itself vastly alters the terrain on which the politics of social policy is fought out. Only an appreciation of how mature social programs create a new politics can allow us to make sense of the welfare state's remarkable resilience over the past two decades of austerity. Theoretical argument is combined with quantitative and qualitative data from four cases (Britain, the United States, Germany, and Sweden) to demonstrate the shortcomings of conventional wisdom and to highlight the factors that limit or facilitate retrenchment success.

3,152 citations

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Paul Pierson1
28 Oct 1994
TL;DR: The politics of programmatic retrenchment: as discussed by the authors discusses the logic of retrenchments in a core sector: old age pensions 4. Retrenchment in a vulnerable sector: housing 5. The Embattled Welfare State: 6.
Abstract: Introduction: Conservatives and the Welfare State Part I. Analytical Foundations: 1. The logic of retrenchment 2. The context for retrenchment politics Part II. The Politics of Programmatic Retrenchment: 3. Retrenchment in a core sector: old age pensions 4. Retrenchment in a vulnerable sector: housing 5. Retrenchment in a residualized sector: income support Part III. The Embattled Welfare State: 6. Reagan, Thatcher and the welfare state 7. Social policy in an era of austerity.

1,759 citations

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Jacob S. Hacker1
TL;DR: This paper showed that although most programs have indeed resisted retrenchment, U.S. social policy has also offered increasingly incomplete risk protection in an era of dramatic social change, and argued that the declining scope of risk protection also reflects deliberate and theoretically explicable strategies of reform adopted by welfare state opponents in the face of popular and changeresistant policies.
Abstract: Over the last decade, students of the welfare state have produced an impressive body of research on retrenchment, the dominant thrust of which is that remarkably few welfare states have experienced fundamental shifts. This article questions this now-conventional wisdom by reconsidering the post-1970s trajectory of the American welfare state, long considered the quintessential case of social policy stability. I demonstrate that although most programs have indeed resisted retrenchment, U.S. social policy has also offered increasingly incomplete risk protection in an era of dramatic social change. Although some of this disjuncture is inadvertent—an unintended consequence of the very political stickiness that has stymied retrenchment—I argue that the declining scope of risk protection also reflects deliberate and theoretically explicable strategies of reform adopted by welfare state opponents in the face of popular and change-resistant policies, a finding that has significant implications for the study of institutional change more broadly.

1,203 citations

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TL;DR: Although there are many potentially confounding differences between countries, the analysis suggests that the interaction of fiscal austerity with economic shocks and weak social protection is what ultimately seems to escalate health and social crises in Europe.

1,161 citations

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1,110 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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202363
2022144
202173
202092
2019101
201897