This book examines how the Netherlands managed to create and
maintain one of the world's most generous and inclusive welfare
systems despite having been dominated by Christian-democratic or
YconservativeOE, rather than socialist dominated governments, for
most of the post-war period. It emphasizes that such systems have
strong consequences for the distribution of income and risk among
different segments of society and argues that they could
consequently only emerge in countries where middle class groups
were unable to utilize their key electoral and strong labor market
position to mobilize against the adverse consequences of
redistribution for them. By illustrating their key role in the
coming about of solidaristic welfare reform in the Netherlands, the
book also offers a novel view of the roles of Christian-democracy
and the labor union movement in the development of modern welfare
states. By highlighting how welfare reform contributed to the
employment miracle of the 1990s, the book sheds new light on how
countries are able to combine high levels of welfare generosity and
solidarity with successful macro-economic performance.
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