Redefining the State - Privatization Welfare Reform in Industrial Transitional Economies

Zusammenfassung Spulber examines historically the changes! debates! and innovations which have shaped the role of the state in relation to different types of economy - covering a wide range of issues concerning the public and private sectors! and essential to an understanding of this important issue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Rationale for the State's Expansion: 1. Public ownership and welfare; 2. An all-encompassing party-State; Part II. Methods of Remodelling the State: 3. Limiting the State's size and scope; 4. Restructuring the State's foundations; Part III. Comparisons within Broader Frameworks: 5. Options and outcomes in the industrial economies; 6. Options and outcomes in the transitional economies; Part IV. Outlook for the Twenty-First Century: 7. Contraction vs expansion of the scope of the State; Notes; Index.

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• Autori: Nicolas Spulber, Nicolas (Indiana University) Spulber, Spulber Nicolas
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.02.2006
• EAN: 9780521024181
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02418-1
• Pagine: 276
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Constitution: government and the state