State Responsiveness and State Activism
Published in April 1989
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-04-445043-6 (ISBN)
Description
A comparative study of the political economy of public welfare, an analysis of the social forces over the course of a century that have led to the adoption of widely differing social welfare systems, and what these processes indicate about the nature of the state.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 figures, 8 tables, bibliogrpahy
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-04-445043-6 (9780044450436)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Theories of state responsiveness and state activism; the methodological problems of comparative macro sociology. Part 1 The growth of the welfare state: institutional patterns in the growth of social welfare; state responsiveness to social needs and political pressures; state involvement and patterns of growth in welfare expenditures. Part 2 The growth of mass education systems: institutional patterns in the expansion of education; state responsiveness to educational demand and political pressures; state involvement and patterns of growth in educational expenditures; state responsiveness and state activism.