It is always more difficult for policy makers to conduct reforms which are intended to restrict the scope of the social interventions of the State that put in place measures that extend it. The reason is simple : the cost of social policies is diffuse and indirect, almost invisible to the citizen-taxpayer, while they provide benefits that are visible and direct to specific categories. These are the "customers" preferred the welfare State, and attach themselves to the existing institutions. The political entrepreneurs who wish to...

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