Transformation of the Welfare State The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility

"[Gilbert is] moderate in his ideology and judicious in his scholarship....Neil Gilbert feels no need to offer systematic theories or grand explanations, which is one reason his book is...persuasive....By refraining from theoretical explanations, Gilbert says something valuable about a social reality as complicated as the welfare state: that its development, as is true of any human institution, is anything but geological...The best any observer can do is to understand a particular situation in all its complexity....Gilbert, Neil is the author of 'Transformation of the Welfare State The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility', published 2002 under ISBN 9780195140743 and ISBN 0195140745.