First published in 1991. The Welfare State in Capitalist Society, uses a methodological approach that draws extensively on comparative material. It presents an analysis of the fortunes of the modern welfare state in conditions of economic and ideological adversity is able to generate propositions of significance; sweeping masterfully over developments on three continents, it distilling a multiplicity of discrete domestic events into a coherent, comprehensible account.
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Höhe: 216 mm
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978-0-7450-0211-8 (9780745002118)
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Ramesh Mishra York University, Ontario
Chapter 1 The end of post-war consensus: strategies of retrenchment and maintenance; Chapter 2 The New Right: retrenching the welfare state in Britain and the United States; Chapter 3 Social corporatism: defending the welfare state in Sweden and Austria; Chapter 4 Social policy and the new models: Canada and Australia; Chapter 5 The welfare state after the 'crisis';
