The Political Economy of the Service Transition

Herausgeber: Wren, Anne

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past four decades the world's most developed economies have experienced rapid de-industrialization. More than three-quarters of employment is now in the service industry. This book is the first systematic examination of the political economy of this transition and explores its profound implications for the economy, politics, and society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199657285
• ISBN-10: 0199657289
• Artikelnr.: 36081338

Autorenporträt

Dr Anne Wren received her PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 2000 and was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University between 2000 and 2007. In 2006 she was awarded a Marie Curie Excellence Team grant by the European Commission to establish a research team working on the political economy of the service transition at the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She returned to Dublin to direct this research programme and is currently a Research Associate of IIIS.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Anne Wren: Introduction: The Political Economy of the
Post-Industrial Age
* Part 1: Socio-Economic Regimes and the Service Transition
* 2: Torben Iversen and David Soskice: A Political-Institutional Model
of Real Exchange Rates, Competitiveness, and the Division of Labor
* 3: Anne Wren, Mate Fodor and Sotiria Theodoropoulou: The Trilemma
Revisited: Implications for Inequality and Employment Creation of the
ICT Revolution and the Expansion of Service Trade
* 4: Moira Nelson and John Stephens: The Service Transition and Women's
Employment
* 5: Karen M. Anderson and Anke Hassel: Pathways of Change in
Coordinated Market Economies: Training Regimes in Germany and the
Netherlands
* 6: Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich: A Tale of Two Trilemmas: Varieties
of Higher Education and the Service Economy
* Part 2: Political Outcomes of Economic Change
* 7: Philip Manow, Kees Van Kersbergen, and Gijs Schumacher:
De-Industrialization and the Expansion of the Welfare State: A
Reassessment
* 8: Anne Wren and Philipp Rehm: Service Expansion, International
Exposure, and Political Preferences
* 9: Lucy Barnes: The Political Economy of Working Time and
Redistribution
* 10: Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth: The Political Economy of
Gender in Service Sector Economies