
Welfare and Work in the Open Economy: Volume I: From Vulnerability to Competitiveness in Comparative Perspective
Volume I: From Vulnerability to Competitiveness
Oxford University Press
Published on 23. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
420 pages
978-0-19-924088-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries. Rejecting any notion of convergence to some kind of neo-liberal orthodoxy, they find that most countries have remained true to the basic features of their postwar model as they have liberalized. Moreover, within different welfare-state constellations, while some countries are still struggling to adjust, others have reached a new sustainable equilibrium. Volume I presents comparative analyses of differences in countries' vulnerabilities and capabilities, the effectiveness of their policy responses, and the role of values and discourse in the politics of adjustment. Volume II presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom as well as special studies in the participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition.
Reviews / Votes
These books are major benchmark studies of welfare states and the problems of adjustment, and provide lucid and valuable analyses of contemporary capitalism. * West European Politics * Much of the two books is taken up with charting in very rich and absorbing detail the precise nature of responses and adjustments. There are some truly excellent country studies. * West European Politics *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
graphs and tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-924088-3 (9780199240883)
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Fritz W. Scharpf | Vivien A. Schmidt
Welfare and Work in the Open Economy: Volume I: From Vulnerability to Competitivesness in Comparative Perspective
Volume I: From Vulnerability to Competitiveness
Book
11/2000
Oxford University Press
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Fritz W. Scharpf | Vivien A. Schmidt
Welfare and Work in the Open Economy: Volume I: From Vulnerability to Competitivesness in Comparative Perspective
E-Book
11/2000
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€47.49
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Persons
Editor
DirectorDirector, Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Department of Political ScienceDepartment of Political Science, Boston University
Content
1. Introduction ; 3. Internationalization and two liberal welfare states: Australia and New Zealand ; 4. Switzerland: Adjustment politics within institutional constraints ; 5. How small countries negotiate change - twenty-five years of policy adjustment in Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium ; 6. Adjusting badly: The German welfare state, structural change, and the open economy ; 7. France: Directing adjustment? ; 8. Italy: Rescue from without? ; 9. Sweden and Denmark: Defending the Welfare State ; 10. A fine balance: Women's labor market participation in international comparison ; 11. Any way out of exit from work? Reversing the entrenched pathways of early retirement? ; 12. After liberalization: Public-interest services and employment in the utilities ; 13. Adjusting national tax policy to economic internationalization - strategies and outcomes