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New Right Ideology, Welfare State Form, and Citizenship: A Comment on Conservative Capitalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Desmond S. King
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science

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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988

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18 Ibid., 251.

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