Paul Pierson (ed.)

The New Politics of the Welfare State

Herausgeber: Pierson, Paul

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

than its dismantling. The authors examine a wide range of countries and public policies arenas, including health care, pensions, and labour markets. They demonstrate how different national settings affect whether, and on what terms, centrist efforts to restructure the welfare state can succeed.

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The welfare states of affluent democracies now stand at the center of political discussion and social conflict. In these path-breaking essays, an international team of leading analysts demonstrate that the politics of social policy focus on the renegotiation, restructuring, and modernization of the post-war social contract rather than its dismantling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 156mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9780198297536
• ISBN-10: 019829753X
• Artikelnr.: 21195740

Inhaltsangabe

* I: Sources of Pressure on the Contemporary Welfare State
* Round Up the Usual Suspects! Globalization, Domestic Politics, and
Welfare State Change
* The Dynamics of Welfare State Expansion: Trade Openness,
De-industrailization and Partisan Politics
* Post-Industrial Pressure on Mature Welfare States
* II: Adjustment Dynamics: Economic Actors and Systems of interest
Intermediation
* Welfare States and production Regimes in an Era of Retrenchment
* Comparative Institutional Advantages of Welfare State regimes and New
Coalitions in Welfare State Reforms
* The Political Economy of Social Pacts: 'Competative Corporatism' and
European Welfare Reforms
* III: Adjustment Dynamics: Parties, Elections, and Political
Institutions
* Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring
* Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of Welfare State
Adaptation
* IV: Comparing Policy Domains
* The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform
* Who Pays for Health care Reform?
* Labour Market Regimes Under Threat? Sources of Continuity in Germany,
Britain, and Sweden
* V. Conclusion
* Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in
Affluent Democracies