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Author : Steven Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110847862X
This theoretically innovative book shows how democratic social movements can use the welfare state to challenge domination in society.
Author : Staffan Kumlin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1782545492
Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen bring together political scientists and sociologists from different and frequently separated research communities to examine policy feedback in European welfare states. In doing so, they offer a rich menu
Author : Amy Gutmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691217955
The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and equal opportunity for all citizens? Why and in what ways does the welfare state discriminate against women? Can we justify limiting immigration for the sake of safeguarding the welfare of Americans? How can elementary and secondary education be distributed consistently with democratic values? The volume confronts powerful criticisms that have been leveled against the welfare state by conservatives, liberals, and radicals and suggests reforms in welfare state programs that might meet these criticisms. The contributors are Joseph H. Carens, Jon Elster, Robert K. Fullinwider, Amy Gutmann, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Stanley Kelley, Jr., Richard Krouse, Michael McPherson, J. Donald Moon, Carole Pateman, Dennis Thompson, and Michael Walzer.
Author : Kees van Kersbergen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134818343
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521013284
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Author : Evelyne Huber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226356493
Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens offer the most systematic examination to date of the origins, character, effects, and prospects of generous welfare states in advanced industrial democracies in the post—World War II era. They demonstrate that prolonged government by different parties results in markedly different welfare states, with strong differences in levels of poverty and inequality. Combining quantitative studies with historical qualitative research, the authors look closely at nine countries that achieved high degrees of social protection through different types of welfare regimes: social democratic states, Christian democratic states, and "wage earner" states. In their analysis, the authors emphasize the distribution of influence between political parties and labor movements, and also focus on the underestimated importance of gender as a basis for mobilization. Building on their previous research, Huber and Stephens show how high wages and generous welfare states are still possible in an age of globalization and trade competition.
Author : Bo Rothstein
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822975025
The Swedish Social Democratic Party, the SAP, is the most successful social democratic party in the world. It has led the government for most of the last six decades, participating either alone or as the dominant force in coalition government. The SAP has also worked closely with trade unions that have organized nearly 85 percent of the labor force, the highest rate among the advanced industrial democracies. Rarely has a political party been so dominant or so closely linked to labor movement. Yet Sweden remains very much a capitolist society with economic and social power firmly in the hands of big capitol.If one wants to know if politics, and most especially if reformist politics, matters - if, that is, political mobilization can change democratic capitolists societies - then Sweden under the Social Democrats is clearly one of the best empirical cases to study.Bo Rothstein uses the Swedish experience to analyze the limits a social democratic government labors under and the possibilities it enjoys in using the state to implement large-scale social change. He examines closely two SAP programs, one a success and the other a failure, that attempted to change social processes deeply embedded in capitolist society. He ties the outcomes of these programs to the structure of the state and hypothesizes that the outcome depends, to a considerable extent, on how administrative apparatuses responsible for implementing each policy are organized. Rothstein concludes that no matter how wisely a reformist policy is designed nor how strong the political party behind it, if the administrative arrangements are faulty, it will fail at the stage of implementation.Rothstein convincingly demonstrates that the democratic capitolist countries of the world have important lessons to learn from the Swedish experience regarding the possibilities for political reform. Political scientists and political reformers alike can learn much from Rothstein's deep knowledge of Swedish government and his innovative model for analyzing political reform in social democratic societies.
Author : David Garland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199672660
This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
Author : Paul Pierson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019829753X
The welfare states of the affluent democracies now stand at the centre of political discussion and social conflict. In these path-breaking essays, an international team of leading analysts rejects simplistic claims about the impact of economic 'globalization'. Economic, demographic, and social pressures on the welfare state are very real, but many of the most fundamental challenges have little to do with globalization. Nor do theauthors detect signs of a convergence of national social policies towards an American-style lowest common denominator. The contemporary politics of the welfare state takes shape against a backdrop of both intense pressures for austerity and enduring popularity. Thus in most of the affluent democracies, the politics of social policy centre on the renegotiation, restructuring, and modernization of the post-war social contract ratherthan its dismantling. The authors examine a wide range of countries and public policies arenas, including health care, pensions, and labour markets. They demonstrate how different national settings affect whether, and on what terms, centrist efforts to restructure the welfare state can succeed.
Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2008-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691135960
Comparing the welfare states of Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, the authors trace the origins of social policy in these regions to political changes in the mid-20th century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.