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9780312296285

Restructuring the Welfare State Political Institutions and Policy Change

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312296285

  • ISBN10:

    0312296282

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-10-04
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

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 labor are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competiting 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.

Author Biography

Bo Rothstein is August R÷hss Chair in Political Science at the University of G÷teborg, Sweden.

Sven Steinmo is Professor in Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Table of Contents

Preface vi
About the Contributors vii
Restructuring Politics: Institutional Analysis and the Challenges of Modern Welfare States
1(19)
Bo Rothstein
Sven Steinmo
Institutions---Experiences---Preferences: How Welfare State Design Affects Political Trust and Ideology
20(31)
Staffan Kumlin
Is America Becoming More Exceptional?: How Public Policy Corporatized Social Citizenship
51(27)
Frank Dobbin
Privatization, Devolution, and the Welfare State: Rethinking the Prevailing Wisdom
78(24)
Steven Rathgeb Smith
Political Institutions and the Politics of Race in the Development of the Modern Welfare State
102(27)
Robert C. Lieberman
Including Foreigners in National Welfare States: Institutional Venues and Rules of the Game
129(28)
Virginie Guiraudon
Negotiating Welfare Reforms: Actors and Institutions in the Japanese Welfare State
157(27)
Margarita Estevez-Abe
Political Trust and Support for the Welfare State: Unpacking a Supposed Relationship
184(22)
Stefan Svallfors
The Universal Welfare State as a Social Dilemma
206(17)
Bo Rothstein
Index 223

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