The new politics of the welfare state
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2001
- 514p xiv
Table of contents I: SOURCES OF PRESSURE ON THE CONTEMPORARY WELFARE STATE ; Round Up the Usual Suspects! Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Welfare State Change ; The Dynamics of Welfare State Expansion: Trade Openness, De-industrailization and Partisan Politics ; Post-Industrial Pressure on Mature Welfare States ; II: ADJUSTMENT DYNAMICS: ECONOMIC ACTORS AND SYSTEMS OF INTEREST INTERMEDIATION ; Welfare States and production Regimes in an Era of Retrenchment ; Comparative Institutional Advantages of Welfare State regimes and New Coalitions in Welfare State Reforms ; The Political Economy of Social Pacts: 'Competative Corporatism' and European Welfare Reforms ; III: ADJUSTMENT DYNAMICS: PARTIES, ELECTIONS, AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ; Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring ; Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of Welfare State Adaptation ; IV: COMPARING POLICY DOMAINS ; The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform ; Who Pays for Health care Reform? Labour Market Regimes Under Threat? Sources of Continuity in Germany, Britain, and Sweden ; V. CONCLUSION ; Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies