Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global MarketsUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.04.2010 - 368 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
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2 Theoretical Framework and Methodological Approach | 14 |
Quantitative Evidence | 39 |
4 Welfare State and Production Regimes | 85 |
A Comparative Historical Analysis | 113 |
Quantitative Evidence | 202 |
A Comparative Historical Analysis | 222 |
8 Conclusion | 312 |
Appendix | 347 |
Notes | 369 |
References | 385 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
active labor market actors agrarian analysis argue Australia Austria bargaining benefits bourgeois capital central chapter Christian democratic welfare cial coalition comparative historical coordinated corporatism corporatist cuts decline decommodification democracy democratic rule Denmark dependent variable earnings-related economic effect employers European expenditure export Finland funds gender Germany Golden Age growth income increase inffuence institutions investment labor force participation labor market labor market policy legislation levels liberal welfare measures ment neoliberal Netherlands nomic Nordic countries Norway OECD organization ÖVP partisan pattern pension percent percentage period political production regimes programs PvdA reforms regressions replacement rates retrenchment role schemes sector sick pay significant social democratic governance social democratic parties social democratic welfare social policy social protection social security SPÖ Stephens strong Sweden Swedish tion transfer unions Wage earner welfare wage restraint welfare state development welfare state regimes women women’s labor force workers Zealand
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xi - Feminism and Democracy," The American Prospect vol. 1, no. 1 (1990). I would also like to thank the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University and the Russell Sage Foundation for support.
Seite iii - William Rand Kenan, Jr., professor of political science and sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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