Christopher Pierson

Broschiertes Buch

Beyond the Welfare State?

The New Political Economy of Welfare

Beschreibung

Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround the history and, still more importantly, the future of welfare in advanced industrialised states. Comprehensively revised and re-written, this third edition of the book embraces all of the most important theoretical and empirical developments in welfare state studies of recent years. Working within an explicitly comparative framework, the book draws on a wealth of international evidence to survey what are now the most pressing issues surrounding the future of welfare: among them, globalisation, demographic change, declining fertility, postindustrialism and immigration. It draws extensively on the explosion of work on welfare states that has emerged within the North American political science community over the past ten years as well as giving detailed attention to developments with the UK, continental and northern Europe and beyond. Beyond the Welfare State? remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the complex of issues that surround welfare reform. It is required reading for anyone who wants to come to terms with what is really at stake in arguments about the future of welfare.

Autor

C. Pierson, Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• 3rd Revised and Third edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780745635217
• ISBN-10: 0745635210
• Artikelnr.: 23239292

Rezensionen

Acclaim for previous edition:

"Students thirsty to understand the wider dimensions of welfarestate policy would do well to turn to Beyond the WelfareState? Its sweep is wide, it is well-ordered and up to date.Most welcome of all, it is clear."

Times Higher Education Supplement

Acclaim for this edition:

"Beyond the Welfare State? draws on a careful andexhaustive review of both the theoretical literature and empiricalevidence on the contemporary Western welfare state and socialdemocracy. Pierson's overview of the forces that propelledcomparative welfare state development, crisis, and change ismasterful, critical, and balanced. Packed with fresh insights andsharp reasoning, the book manages to pull together

what it isimportant to know in the field of comparative welfare statestudies. It is just about the best review of the literaturecurrently available - a perfect text for upper-leveluniversity courses."

Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Pompeu FabraUniversity

"Given the complexity of modern welfare states and the plethoraof opinion surrounding them, attempting to give a theoreticallyrich and empirically comprehensive accounting of both the state ofcontemporary welfare states and the state of theory about themseems an impossible task. Yet this is exactly what ChristopherPierson has achieved. Combining a detailed multi-country historicaloverview with a theoretical summary that is essential reading foranyone wishing to understand the real "state" of the modern welfarestate, Beyond the Welfare State? is a tour de force ofcomparative analysis."

Mark Blyth, John Hopkins University