Third Way Reforms - Social Democracy After the Golden Age

Informationen zum Autor Jingjing Huo earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and currently teaches at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. His primary research interest is comparative political economy and institutions, and his work appears in Comparative Political Studies, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of European Social Policy. Klappentext This book examines the transformation of contemporary social democracy through the concept of 'third way' reforms in nine OECD countries. Zusammenfassung This book examines the transformation of contemporary social democracy through the concept of 'third way' reforms in nine OECD countries. Huo proposes that the ideologically contested nature of institutions provides incentives for institutional innovation! and that social democratic ideology shapes the fundamental characteristics and content of the third way policy paradigm. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Theorizing the third way; 3. Constraints on action: institutions and ideas; 4. Prelude to the third way; 5. Expansion in active protection; 6. Restructuring passive protection; 7. Economic and corporatist contexts for the third way; 8. Theories of possibilities.

Product details

• Authors: Jingjing Huo, Jingjing (University of Waterloo Huo, Huo Jingjing
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781316501108
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50110-8
• No. of pages: 374
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Economic systems and structures, Political ideologies and movements, Welfare and benefit systems