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Klappentext Redefining the State examines in historical perspective the changes of the role of the state with regard to public ownership and the scope of welfare in the main industrial and transitional economies. These changes have given rise to illuminating debates on the state's size, range, and function, and have involved important transformations concerning the boundaries between the public and private sector, the forms and extent of privatization, and the nature and content of public welfare. These debates and transformations are of critical importance to understanding the actual and potential scope of the state in any economy. Zusammenfassung Spulber examines historically the changes! debates! and innovations which have shaped the role of the state in relation to different types of economy - covering a wide range of issues concerning the public and private sectors! and essential to an understanding of this important issue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Rationale for the State's Expansion: 1. Public ownership and welfare; 2. An all-encompassing party-State; Part II. Methods of Remodelling the State: 3. Limiting the State's size and scope; 4. Restructuring the State's foundations; Part III. Comparisons within Broader Frameworks: 5. Options and outcomes in the industrial economies; 6. Options and outcomes in the transitional economies; Part IV. Outlook for the Twenty-First Century: 7. Contraction vs expansion of the scope of the State; Notes; Index.
