Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden: From Relief to Income Maintenance

Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden was the winner of the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs. In this book, Heclo analyzes the history of income maintanence policies in Britain and Sweden--and the fundamental questions that have been raised in the past one hundred years in the wake of these policies--using sharp political analysis, comparative method, historical research and political theory.