Welfare and Work in the Open Economy: Volume Ii: Diverse Responses - to Common Challenges in Twelve Countrie

Zusammenfassung In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries. Rejecting any notion of convergence to some kind of neo-liberal orthodoxy, they find that most countries have remained true to the basic features of their postwar model as they have liberalized. Moreover, within different welfare- state constellations, while some countries are still struggling to adjust, others have reached a new sustainable equilibrium. Volume I presents comparative analyses of differences in countries' vulnerabilities and capabilities, the effectiveness of the policy responses, and the role of values and discourse in the politics of adjustment. Volume II presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom as well as special studies on the the participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition.

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• Authors: Fritz W. (Director Scharpf
• Assisted by: Fritz W. Scharpf (Editor), Vivien A. Schmidt (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2000
• EAN: 9780199240913
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924091-3
• No. of pages: 678
• Series: Welfare and Work in the Open Economy; Welfare and Work in the Open Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Europe, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian, macroeconomics, Poverty & unemployment, Labour / income economics, Political science & theory, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, New Zealand, Sociology: work & labour, Political science and theory, c 1970 to c 1979, Central / national / federal government policies, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Sociology: work and labour, Central government policies, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment, New Zealand / Aotearoa