Comparative History of Public Policy

Herausgeber: Castles, Francis G

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780745605180
• ISBN-10: 0745605184
• Artikelnr.: 21621345

Autorenporträt

Francis G. Castles is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and at the Center for Social Policy Research (CeS) in Bremen.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Puzzles of Political Economy (Francis G Castles)
2. Social Protection by Other Means: Australia's Strategy of Coping With
External Vulnerability (Francis G Castles)
3. Learning from Catastrophes: West Germany's Public Policy (Manfred G
Schmidt)
4. The Comparative History of Public Policy in Israel (Michael Shalev)
5. `Pillarisation' and `Popular Movements' Two Variants of Welfare State
Capitalism: The Netherlands and Sweden (Gordan Therborn)
6. Japan's Creative Conservatism: Continuity Under Challenge (T J Pempel)
7. The United Kingdom: Paradoxes of an Ungrounded Statism (Patrick
Dunleavy)
8. Taking Exception: Explaining the Distinctiveness of American Public
Policies in The Past Century (Edwin Amenta and Theda Skopol)
Notes on Contributors.