The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State

by Thomas Janoski , Alexander M. Hicks

• ISBN13: 9780521436021
• ISBN10: 0521436028
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Comparative research is exploding with alternative methodological and theoretical approaches. In this book, experts in each one of these methods provide a comprehensive explanation and application of time-series, pooled, event history and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state. Each section of the book focuses on a different method with a general introduction to the methods and then two papers using the method to deal with analysis concerning welfare state problems in a political economy perspective. Scholars concerned with methodology in this area cannot afford to overlook this book because it will help them keep up on proliferating methodologies. Graduate students in political science and sociology will find this book extremely useful in their careers.

Table of Contents

1. Methodological innovations in comparative political economy: an introduction

Part I. Time-Series Analysis: 2. Introduction to time-series analysis

3. Direct state intervention in the labour market: the explanation of active labour market policy from 1950 to 1988 in social democratic, conservative and liberal regimes

4. Quality of quantity in comparative/historical analysis: temporarily changing wage labour regimes in the United States and Sweden

5. The politics of public and private investment in Britain

Part II. Polled Time-Series and Cross-Sectional Analysis: 6. Introduction to pooling

7. The social democratic corporatist model of economic performance in short- and medium-run perspective

8. National variation in the fortunes of labour: a pooled and cross-sectional analysis of the impact of economic crisis in advanced capitalist nations

Part III. Event History Analysis: 9. Introduction to event history methods

10. Welfare state development in a world system context: event history analysis of first social insurance legislation among 60 countries, 1880-1960

11. British and French political institutions and the patterning of decolonisation

Part IV. Boolean Analysis: 12. Introduction to qualitative comparative analysis

13. A qualitative analysis of pension systems

14. The politics of social security: on regressions, qualitative comparisons and cluster analysis

15. Conclusion: quo vadis political economy? Theory and methodology in the comparative analysis of the welfare state.