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The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalismby Robert E. Goodin; Bruce Headey; Ruud Muffels; Henk-Jan Dirven
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 32.00This book traces how individuals have fared over ten years in each of the three principal types of welfare state. The authors argue that the social democratic welfare regime of the Netherlands outperforms the corporatist German regime and the liberal US regime on a range of measures. more...
Renegotiating the Welfare Stateby Frans van Waarden; Gerhard Lehmbruch
Routledge 2003; US$ 160.00This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. more...
The OECD and European Welfare Statesby Klaus Armingeon; Michelle Beyeler
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00The OECD includes the richest nations in the world. It issues recommendations on economic and social policies. Is its counsel on welfare state policies coherent? And is it followed by member states in Western Europe? These are the guiding questions of this book, which is a first to deal with such issues. more...
Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare Statesby Duane Swank; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates; Ellen Comisso; Peter Hall; Joel Migdal; Helen Milner
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00This book argues that the dramatic post-1970 rise in international capital mobility has not systematically contributed to the retrenchment of developed welfare states as many claim. Nor has globalization directly reduced the revenue-raising capacities of governments and undercut the political institutions that support the welfare state. more...
Understanding State Welfareby B. Lund
Sage Publications Ltd. 2002; US$ 59.00Lund (Manchester Metropolitan U.) explores some of the theories and principles underlying the government provision of services whether in the narrow US sense of emergency and temporary aid or the broader European sense that includes such permanent services as health care and housing. more...
The Diversity of Democracyby C. Crouch; W. Streeck
Edward Elgar Publishing 2006; US$ 40.00Focusing on the classical literature on neo-corporatism, this book illustrates the enormous influence of the 'neo-corporatist debate' on modern political science, political sociology, and political economy. It is aimed at academics, students and researchers with an interest in political science, democratic theory and European integration. more...
Communism and the Emergence of Democracyby Harald Wydra
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00Connects the study of democratisation to the emergence and crisis of communism. more...
Is the Welfare State Justified?by Daniel Shapiro
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00Argues that contemporary political philosophy should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. more...
Revisiting the Welfare Stateby Robert Page
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 47.98What was the impact of the Second World War on the development of the welfare state? Did Attlee's pioneering post-war Labour governments create the welfare state and a socialist society? This title provides an account of the British welfare state after 1940. It re-examines commonly held assumptions about the post-war welfare state. more...
European Welfare States Comparative Perspectivesby M Cousins
Sage Publications Ltd. 2005; US$ 54.00Bringing together a discussion of the theories and techniques of comparative policy analysis and a description of current developments in selected welfare state regimes, European Welfare States provides an accessible overview of issues concerning European welfare states. In particular, it provides: -an overview of the development of welfare states in Europe -a discussion of key issues including welfare state theories, the role of globalization, gender and the welfare state; welfare typologies; and the role of public opinion -a detailed account of recent developments and current challenges in five European welfare states; and -a detailed account of the key challenges facing European welfare states and possible future directions for welfare models... more...









