![]() ![]() Although there is cross-party agreement over life-course protection, right governments want to offer their own constituents the best possible deal. At this level, the distinctiveness of right over left approaches emerges more strongly, even over life-course issues. ![]() Having established a life-course/labour market distinction in the approach of the right to welfare, Jensen turns his attention to partisan strategies within these areas. In setting out to construct a ‘positive’ theory of the right and the welfare state, Carsten Jensen attempts to fill a long-standing gap in the literature. Given the realities of post-war conservative governance and the rise of neoliberal ideology, though, the right’s conception and development of welfare politics is clearly deserving of academic attention. The values surrounding the construction of the post-war consensus on welfare have entrenched the values of the left as the standard from which other approaches are held to ‘deviate’. This review was originally published on the LSE Review of Books. Patricia Hogwood finds that Jensen’s approach proves most effective in highlighting a deeper and more diverse interest in welfare politics than centre-right governments are generally given credit for. These parties have been assumed to be nothing but the welfare-sceptical flip-side of the Left, but Carsten Jensen uses case studies of Australia, Denmark, and the UK to present a new theory. ![]() The Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal governments. ![]()
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