• 1: Introduction


• 2: Theoretical Framework


• 3: Preferences for Risk Protection


• 4: A Quantitative Analysis of the Partisan Politics of Risk Protection


• 5: The Fine Art of Marketization


• 6: Erode and Attack


• 7: New Perspectives on the Welfare State

Carsten Jensen's research focuses on the role of political parties in public policy-making and opinion formation in Western democracies. He is Associate Professor at Aarhus University.

The Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal governments. These parties have been assumed to be nothing but the welfare-sceptical flip-side of the Left, but the book presents a new theory arguing that the conventional wisdom is wrong.