Obinger, Herbert,  1970- <br/><br/>
Transformations of the welfare state :  small states, big lessons / 
Herbert Obinger [and others]. 
 - xii, 320 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Based on work undertaken by an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Breman's Collaborative Research Centre "Transformations of the State" (TransState). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction --  Austria: The 'Island of the Blessed' in the Ocean of Globalisation --  Denmark: The Survival of a Social-democratic Welfare State --  New Zealand: Retrenchment and Reconstruction --  Switzerland: from Liberal to Conservative Welfare State - a Pattern of Late Maturation? --  Comparative Perspectives.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0199296324 9780199296323 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Welfare state--OECD countries<br/>States, Small--Economic conditions<br/>Welfare state--New Zealand
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>OECD countries--Economic conditions<br/>New Zealand--Economic conditions--1984-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC59  / .T73 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.126