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Zusatztext This book should be required reading for those social scientists and economists who predict global convergence on 'efficient', market-conforming institutions and policies. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Glyn tragically died of a brain tumour just before Christmas 2007. Andrew Glyn is Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also Consultant to the National Union of Mineworkers, ILO, and the UN.He has previously worked for H.M. Treasury and for the University of Tokyo. Refreshingly contrasting approaches to the challenge of offering cross-national comparison ... accessibly written and makes a significant and well-informed contribution to debate about the 'new', or not so new, social democracy. Political Studies This book should be required reading for those social scientists and economists who predict global convergence on 'efficient', market-conforming institutions and policies. Journal of International Studies Zusammenfassung Never has the Left held power in so many advanced economies, yet never has the difference that this makes to economic policy been so hard to specify. Across a range of European countries and in Australia, governments of the Left have struggled to chart a distinctive course in the face of the neoliberal backlash against state intervention, the welfare state, and guaranteed full employment. This volume is the first to examine the record of these governments in securing high employment and a more equal distribution of income in the face of slow growth and global pressures to reduce inflation. Detailed studies of governments from Mitterand to Blair and from Keating to Papandreou by leading writers from the countries are complemented by surveys of experience of the welfare state and of the ideological and historical background to these governments' attempts to further the objectives of social democracy. 1. Introduction; 2. Understanding Swedish Democracy: Victims of Success; 3. The Austrian Experience; 4. Social Democracy and Market Reform in Australia and New Zealand; 5. The Logic and Limits of Desinflation Competitive; 6. The Political Economy of Social Democratic Economic Policies: The PASOK Experiment in Greece; 7. The Spanish Socialists in Power: Thirteen Years of Economic Policy; 8. New Labour's Economic Policy; 9. Why the Social Democratic Option Failed: Poland's Experience of Systemic Change; 10. The Choices for Scandinavian Social Democracy in Comparative Perspective; 11. The Social Democratic Welfare State; 12. How Many Ways can be Third? ...
