Agents of the Welfare State: How Caseworkers Respond to Need in the United States, Germany, and Sweden

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This book shows how responsiveness in European welfare programs is institutionalized through nationally distinct legal foundations, professional traditions, and resource networks, while revealing how resource scarcities threaten to erode these capabilities.