The Nordic countries share certain governance characteristics, such as a welfare state legacy, promotion of transparency, and the inclination to bottom-up and polycentric governance approaches.
The welfare state was a legacy of the second world war.
He yearns to leave as his legacy a welfare state transformed by diversity of provision and consumer choice, fit for the 21st century.
A documentary about the creation of the welfare state and its legacy, it presents us with Loach's vision of the British working class, united in the struggle for a better Britain.
But my talks were not so much about my past as about everyone else's future, and how the younger generations must now shoulder the responsibility to maintain and preserve my generation's legacy, the welfare state.
In the south, Bhutto's decimated People's party will keep ruling and keep saying that folks up north are stealing its water, destroying its social welfare programmes and secular legacy.
Reagan is also credited with ushering in a "conservative revolution" in domestic politics, reversing years of liberal dominance in policy thinking and practice, and forcing even Democrat Bill Clinton to embrace his legacy with welfare reform, on Nafta and other "heretical" policies.
The Northern Ireland parties are trying to resolve outstanding issues, including budgets, welfare reform, and the legacy of the Troubles.
While Democrats at the time savored his electoral strength, the major elements of his governing legacy -- welfare reform, Wall Street deregulation and tough-on-crime criminal justice policies -- were Republican priorities.
Over all, her testimony seemed to steer a careful course between overt praise and oblique criticism of the Giuliani administration's legacies on welfare.
