Fritz W. Scharpf / Vivien A. Schmidt (eds.)

Welfare and Work in the Open Economy

Volume I: From Vulnerability to Competitiveness
Herausgeber: Scharpf, Fritz W.; Schmidt, Vivien A.

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Produktbeschreibung

In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries. Rejecting any notion of convergence to some kind of neo-liberal orthodoxy, they find that most countries have remained true to the basic features of their postwar model as they have liberalized. Moreover, within different welfare-state constellations, while some countries are still struggling to adjust, others have reached a new sustainable equilibrium. Volume I presents comparative analyses of differences in countries' vulnerabilities and capabilities, the effectiveness of their policy responses, and the role of values and discourse in the politics of adjustment. Volume II presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom as well as special studies in the participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199240883
• ISBN-10: 0199240884
• Artikelnr.: 21895095

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: Martin Rhodes
* 3: Herman Schwartz: Internationalization and two liberal welfare
states: Australia and New Zealand
* 4: Giuliano Bonoli and André Mach: Switzerland: Adjustment politics
within institutional constraints
* 5: Anton Hemerijck, Brigitte Unger, and Jelle Visser: How small
countries negotiate change - twenty-five years of policy adjustment
in Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium
* 6: Philip Manow and Eric Seils: Adjusting badly: The German welfare
state, structural change, and the open economy
* 7: Jonah D. Levy: France: Directing adjustment?
* 8: Maurizio Ferrera and Elisabetta Gualmini: Italy: Rescue from
without?
* 9: Mats Benner and Torben Bundgaard Vad: Sweden and Denmark:
Defending the Welfare State
* 10: Mary Daly: A fine balance: Women's labor market participation in
international comparison
* 11: Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Any way out of exit from work? Reversing the
entrenched pathways of early retirement?
* 12: Adrienne Héritier and Susanne K. Schmidt: After liberalization:
Public-interest services and employment in the utilities
* 13: Steffen Ganghof: Adjusting national tax policy to economic
internationalization - strategies and outcomes