Age in the Welfare State Hardback: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Tapa dura

'Julia Lynch has made an unusually creative and insightful contribution to comparative social policy theory. The great virtue of Age in the Welfare State is that it succeeds in answering all three of its major research questions in a robust, systematic, and thought-provoking way.' Pieter Vanhuysse, University of Haifa

'Lynch proposes an innovative historical-institutional explanation ... Lynch's fact-finding strategy in these chapters is certainly helpful in establishing precise values for the ENSR and in raising additional theoretical puzzles. ... the author supplements this early analysis with three rigourous chapter-length studies of family allowances, unemployment benefits and pensions in two countries ... Julia Lynch has made an unusually creative and insightful contribution to comparative social policy theory. ... this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the interplay of liberal democracy and public policy.' Journal of Social Policy

Julia Lynch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her recent dissertation, on which this book is based, garnered the Gabriel Almond prize of the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in comparative politics. Professor Lynch was previously a scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars program at Harvard University, and she has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence and the Luxembourg Income Study project in Luxembourg