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Beyond the Welfare State : Postwar Social Settlement and Public Pension Policy in Canada and Australia / Sirvan Karimi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karimi, Sirvan, Author.
- Series:
- Studies in comparative political economy and public policy.
- Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pensions--Government policy.
- Pensions.
- Pensions--Government policy--Canada.
- Canada--Social policy.
- Canada.
- Australia--Social policy.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia? In Beyond the Welfare State, Sirvan Karimi utilizes a synthesis of Marxian class analysis and the power resources model to provide an analytical foundation for the divergent pattern of public pension systems in Canada and Australia. Karimi reveals that the postwar social contract in Australia was market-based and more conducive to the privatization of retirement income. In Canada, the social contract emphasized income redistribution that resulted in strengthening the link between the state and the citizen. By shedding light on the impact of national settings on public pension systems, Beyond the Welfare State introduces new conceptual tools to aid our understanding of the welfare state at a time when it is increasingly under threat."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Theoretical perspectives on the welfare state: towards a new synthetic approach
- Pension systems: Canadian and Australian cases
- National settings, class forces and Keynesianism
- Postwar expansion of pension system in Australia
- Postwar expansion of pension system in Canada
- Welfare state restructuring and neoliberal variations in Canada and Australia
- Restructuring of the pension system in Australia
- Restructuring of the pension system in Canada.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-1096-9
- 1-4875-1095-0
- OCLC:
- 970693945
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