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This chapter explores what is, ostensibly at least, the beginning of the era of Anglosphere shared institutional architecture. The purpose here is to undertake a sort of ideational archaeology of three countries in particular, tracing the heritage and intellectual development of the Anglo model of welfare-to-work. I approach this by looking back at the conditions that gave rise to the prevailing attitudes towards welfare support during the 1990s in Australia, UK and USA. The chapter engages with Third Way ideas, and the ‘rights and responsibilities’ narratives of communitarianism. To do so, the chapter surveys the landscape of welfare politics in Australia, the UK and USA from the mid-90s to the early 2000s, drawing attention to the policy settings of Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) of each country, drawing attention to the salient features of each country from the late 1990s to early 2000s.
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Legrand, T. (2021). The Third Way and the Landscape of Welfare Reform: Australia, UK and USA. In: The Architecture of Policy Transfer. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55821-5_5
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