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Revisiting Pierson’s Work on the Politics of Welfare State Reform in the Era of Retrenchment Twenty Years Later

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2015

John D. Stephens*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Symposium: Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State: A Twentieth Anniversary Reassessment
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2015 

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