Welfare State Retrenchment - The Case of Japan

The purpose of this article is to examine the implications for welfare state retrenchment of central-local financial relations. In the post-war period, welfare state expansion has been a dominant theme in the development of central-local government relations in advanced industrial democracies. By th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Takao, Yasuo
Format: Journal Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 1999
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77578