| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Jytte Klausen. War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present. New York: St. Martin's. 1998. Pp. 341. $59.95.

Jytte Klausen presents a "historical-institutional explanation" of welfare states in Europe and the United States since World War II (p. 280). Her thesis is that "significant continuities existed between the warfare and welfare states," mainly because "wartime state building had radically extended the state's reach and capacities" (pp. 1–2). Unlike most of the political scientists and sociologists, and a few of the historians, whose work she assesses, Klausen regards the state as the "central organizing principle of politics and policy" (p. 280). 1

Klausen makes two contributions to the historical study of welfare states in Great Britain, the United States, Sweden, Germany, Austria, and France, in that order, since World War II. First, she describes in detail similarities in the assumptions that leaders in these countries made about economic problems and how to solve them. Second, she documents the interrelationship of economic and social policy. . . .

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