Restructuring The Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change (Political Evolution and Institutional Change) - Softcover

 
9780312296285: Restructuring The Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change (Political Evolution and Institutional Change)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312296282 ISBN 13: 9780312296285
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Synopsis

The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing international competition for capital and labour are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competing pressures and offers a coherent analyses of both institutional resilience and institutional change. Adopting an evolutionary approach, this innovative volume demonstrates both how past practices and policies significantly affect the current options and how social and economic forces impinge upon each of these societies in surprisingly different ways. Cross-national in scope and unified in approach, Restructuring the Welfare State examines core issues facing the contemporary welfare state while at the same time significantly advancing historical institutionalist theory.

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About the Author

BO ROTHSTEIN is the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at the University of Göteborg, Sweden

SVEN STEINMO is a Professor in Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0312296282
ISBN 13 
9780312296285
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
233
Editor
Rothstein B., Steinmo S.

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