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on a decade of unprecedented fiscal expansionism, with the share of government spending climbing from about 30 per cent in 1980 to almost 45 per cent today. The rapid growth of public spending in these countries is perhaps best interpreted as a move toward Northern European standards of welfare provision, following the replacement of right-wing military dictatorships by democratic and often left-leaning governments. The Mediterranean countries are therefore no longer particularly vulnerable to the charge of social dumping

Goodbye Welfare State

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on a decade of unprecedented fiscal expansionism, with the share of government spending climbing from about 30 per cent in 1980 to almost 45 per cent today. The rapid growth of public spending in these countries is perhaps best interpreted as a move toward Northern European standards of welfare provision, following the replacement of right-wing military dictatorships by democratic and often left-leaning governments. The Mediterranean countries are therefore no longer particularly vulnerable to the charge of social dumping

Goodbye Welfare State