WELFARE AND WORK IN THE OPEN ECONOMY: VOLUME II: DIVERSE RESPONSES TO COMMON CHALLENGES IN TWELVE COUNTRIES by Fritz W. Scharpf (Editor), Vivien A. Schmidt (Editor) ( 9780199240913 )

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Title:

WELFARE AND WORK IN THE OPEN ECONOMY: VOLUME II: DIVERSE RESPONSES TO COMMON CHALLENGES IN TWELVE COUNTRIES

By:

Fritz W. Scharpf (Editor), Vivien A. Schmidt (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0199240914

ISBN 13:

9780199240913

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 September, 2000

Series:

Welfare and Work in the Open Economy

Pages:

678

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. Volume I presents comparative analyses of differences in the vulnerabilities and capabilities of these countries, in the effectiveness of their policy responses, and in the role of values and discourses in the politics of adjustment. Volume II presents in-depth analysesof 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 on the participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, andinternational tax competition.

Synopsis:

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 the 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 on the the participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition.

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Imprint:

Oxford University Press

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