TY  - BOOK
AU  - Obinger,Herbert
ED  - Universität Bremen.
TI  - Transformations of the welfare state: small states, big lessons 
SN  - 0199296324
AV  - HC59 .T73 2010
U1  - 330.126 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford [England], New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Welfare state
KW  - OECD countries
KW  - States, Small
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - 1984-
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -