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Informationen zum Autor Isabela Mares is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the author of The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare Development (Cambridge University Press, 2003), which won the Gregory Luebbert Award of the American Political Science Association for best book in comparative politics. Her articles have appeared in International Organization, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, Governance, the Journal of Public Policy, Studie Politiczne and various edited volumes. Klappentext In an effort to explain cross-national and temporal changes in employment outcomes, this book examines a political exchange between unions and governments, during which unions voluntarily agreed to pursue moderate wage settlements, while governments responded with an expansion of social policy transfers. The book shows how the growth in the tax burden necessary to finance existing social policy commitments has undermined the effectiveness of this political exchange and its ability to restore high levels of employment. Zusammenfassung In an effort to explain cross-national and temporal changes in employment outcomes! this book examines a political exchange between unions and governments! during which unions voluntarily agreed to pursue moderate wage settlements! while governments responded with an expansion of social policy transfers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: does the welfare state hurt unemployment; 1. The economic and political consequences of welfare state maturation; 2. A quantitative analysis; 3. Sweden; 4. Germany; 5. Britain; Conclusion: new social pacts in contemporary Europe.
