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Transformations of the welfare state : small states, big lessons
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare state--Economic conditions--OECD countries.
- Welfare state.
- States, Small.
- OECD countries--Economic conditions.
- OECD countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 320 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Transformations of the welfare state
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Transformations of the Welfare State' analyses several small advanced OECD economies to assess whether the welfare state can compete under the conditions of an increasingly integrated world economy. Looking to the future of the welfare state, in an era newly marked by profound uncertainty, the authors sound an optimistic note.
- Contents:
- Austria: the 'Island of the Blessed' in the ocean of globalization
- Denmark: the survival of a social democratic welfare state
- New Zealand: retrenchment and reconstruction
- Switzerland: from liberal to conservative welfare state - a pattern of late maturation?
- Comparative perspectives.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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