Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Globalization, democracy, and the welfare state; 3. Global capital, political institutions, and contemporary welfare state development: quantitative analysis; 4. Big welfare states in global markets: internationalization and welfare state reform in the Nordic social democracies; 5. Globalization and policy change in corporatist conservative welfare states; 6. Internationalization and liberal welfare states: a synopsis; 7. Assessing long-term impacts: the impact of globalization on taxation, institutions, and control of the macroeonomy; 8. Conclusions: national welfare states in a global economy.

Summary

This book argues that the dramatic post-1970 rise in international capital mobility has not systematically contributed to the retrenchment of developed welfare states as many claim. Nor has globalization directly reduced the revenue-raising capacities of governments and undercut the political institutions that support the welfare state.

Product details

• Authors: Duane Swank
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780521001441
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00144-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education