These challenges are due to public support for the new regime (among policy beneficiaries and operators) and the relative autonomy of the State (Pierson, 2000). Attempts to scale back the welfare State can face rejection. But retrenchment can be accepted on certain terms and under certain strategies followed by political actors (blame avoidance, responsibility-shifting) (Fridberg, 2012, Del Pino, 2007, Campillo, 2007).