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Zusatztext Much of the two books is taken up with charting in very rich and absorbing detail the precise nature of responses and adjustments. There are some truly excellent country studies. Klappentext 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. Volume I presents comparative analyses of differences in countries' vulnerabilities and capabilities, the effectiveness of their 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 participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition. Zusammenfassung A study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures that details the variety of responses in 12 countries. Volume I presents comparative analyses. Volume II presents in-depth analyses of each of the 12. 1. Introduction; 2. Restructuring the British welfare state: Between domestic constraints and global imperatives; 3. Internationalization and two liberal welfare states: Australia and New Zealand; 4. Switzerland: Adjustment politics within institutional constraints; 5. How small countries egotiate change: Twenty-five years of policy adjustment in Austria, the netherlands, and Belgium; 6. Adjusting badly: The German welfare state, structural change, and the open economy; 7. France: Directing adjustment?; 8. Italy: Rescue from without?; 9. Sweden and Denmark: Defending the Welfare State; 10. A Fine Balance: Women's labor market particilation in international comparison; 11. Any way out of exit from work? Reversing the entrenched pathways of early retirement?; 12. After liberalization: Pubic-interest services and employment itilities; 13. Adjusting national tax policy to economic internationalization: Strategies and outcomes...
