Isabel M. Perera (Cornell) was awarded the Council for European Studies most prestigious book award for her latest book The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies.
Examining an often-overlooked facet of the welfare state, mental health care, the book emphasizes the role of workers and managers in shaping radically different outcomes across the US, France, Norway, and Sweden.
The award committee noted it was “especially impressed with the breadth and theoretical rigor of The Welfare Workforce. Using the specific case of mental health care Perera develops a novel theoretical argument about the political dynamics of welfare state reform that is likely to be applicable to other parts of the welfare state.”
Want to learn more? Get your hands on a copy of “The Welfare Workforce," out now from Cambridge University Press.
