Bo Rothstein's scientific contributions

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Book
In this book Bo Rothstein seeks to defend the universal welfare state against a number of important criticisms which it has faced in recent years. He combines genuine philosophical analysis of normative issues concerning what the state ought to do with empirical political scientific research in public policy examining what the state can do. Issues...

Citations

... In all of these countries, the service was first established by non-profit providers, with municipalities gradually becoming the dominant providers as ECEC matured to become a general welfare service around 1970. Consequently, ECEC became instrumental for several of the main Nordic welfare goals: increased female work participation, high-quality welfare services for all and reduced social inequality through education and public subsidies (Kautto et al., 2001;Rothstein, 1998). The shared welfare goals for ECEC thus seem to reflect a Nordic dimension. ...