Request For Info On Origins of European Welfare States

[Paul Henry Rosenberg]

I'm interested in a concise overview of the origins of European welfare
states, with or without comparison to the United States.  

Any suggestions?

I'm more interested in descriptive (including quantitative) detail than
ideological position, though of course the better the ideological
insight, the better.  But what I really need is a strong sense of the
basic outlines of historical developments.

-- 
Paul Rosenberg
Reason and Democracy
rad at gte.net

 
"Let's put the information BACK into the information age!"