Paul Pierson

The New Politics of the Welfare State

Herausgeber: Pierson, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 796g
• ISBN-13: 9780198297567
• ISBN-10: 0198297564
• Artikelnr.: 21439646

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: 'Competitive Corporatism' and
European Welfare Reforms
* III: Adjustment Dynamics: Parties, Elections, and Political
* 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