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Item Details
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RADICAL WELFARE STATE RETRENCHMENT
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS |
| By: |
Peter Starke |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£75.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
023028857X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230288577 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
7 December, 2007 |
| Series: |
Transformations of the State |
| Description: |
This book confronts one of the most fiercely contested issues in current political debates: how is welfare state retrenchment possible in modern democracies despite the welfare state's continuing popular appeal? Starke offers an international comparative analysis of welfare state retrenchment and an in-depth examination of its radical deployments. |
| Synopsis: |
In this study, Peter Starke confronts one of the most fiercely contested issues in current political debates: how is the retrenchment of the welfare state possible when popular support for it remains strong throughout the OECD world? Traditionally, challenges to the welfare state were seen as electoral suicide, but this changed in the 1980s when Margaret Thatcher's government began a series of cutbacks in the UK. During the 1990s, the New Zealand government announced the most radical social benefit cutbacks the country had ever seen. Examining these cases in detail, and contrasting them with Sweden and Germany, Starke argues that radical retrenchment is not the result of historical accident or political will but that it is due to a particular constellation of partisan and institutional factors. |
| Illustrations: |
18, 6 figures, 12 black & white tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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