Transformations of the welfare state : small states, big lessons / Herbert Obinger [and others].
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199296324
- 9780199296323
- 330.126 22
- HC59 .T73 2010
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 330.126 TRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A473521B |
Based on work undertaken by an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Breman's Collaborative Research Centre "Transformations of the State" (TransState).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. Austria: The 'Island of the Blessed' in the Ocean of Globalisation -- 2. Denmark: The Survival of a Social-democratic Welfare State -- 3. New Zealand: Retrenchment and Reconstruction -- 4. Switzerland: from Liberal to Conservative Welfare State - a Pattern of Late Maturation? -- 5. Comparative Perspectives.
"Transformations of the Welfare State gives a new twist to the longstanding debate on the impact of economic globalization on the welfare state. The authors focus on several small, advanced OECD economies in order to assess whether (and how) the welfare state will be able to compete under conditions of an increasingly integrated world economy. "--Publisher's website.
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