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  • State Responsiveness and State Activism

    An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies that Explain the Rise in Social Expenditures in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1870–1968

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society
    State Responsiveness and State Activism (1989) provides a unique comparative account of some of the most fundamental social changes that have taken place in the western world and the role played in these changes by the state. It evaluates which models – economic, modernization, political mobilization, class conflict – best predict the growth in social welfare and in educational expenditures; ... Leer más

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  • The Renewal of the Kibbutz

    From Reform to Transformation

    We think of the kibbutz as a place for communal living and working. Members work, reside, and eat together, and share income “from each according to ability, to each according to need.” But in the late 1980s the kibbutzim decided that they needed to change. Reforms—moderate at first—were put in place. Members could work outside of the organization, but wages went to the collective. Apartments ... Leer más

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  • The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

    Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies.Esping-Andersen distinguishes ... Leer más

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  • Taxing the Rich

    A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe

    A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the richIn today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you.Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled ... Leer más

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  • After Piketty

    Are Thomas Piketty’s analyses of inequality on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas he pushed to the forefront of global conversation? In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. ... Leer más

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  • Neither Liberal nor Conservative

    Ideological Innocence in the American Public

    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage.Well, American elites disagree fiercely. But average Americans do not. This, at least, was the position ... Leer más

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  • Comparative Political Economy

    Contours of a Subfield

    de Georg Menz ...
    This new and comprehensive volume covering the subfield of comparative political economy provides a detailed overview over its intellectual roots, clarifies its contents, and introduces the readers to key debates while identifying new and exciting avenues for future research. Ideas, interests, and institutions have traditionally been the main focus points of this field, but the volume argues that ... Leer más

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  • Growing Public: Volume 1, The Story

    Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century

    Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations from using taxes for social programs until the end of the nineteenth century? Why did taxes and spending then ... Leer más

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  • The Hegemony of Growth

    The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm

    In modern society, economic growth is considered to be the primary goal pursued through policymaking. But when and how did this perception become widely adopted among social scientists, politicians and the general public? Focusing on the OECD, one of the least understood international organisations, Schmelzer offers the first transnational study to chart the history of growth discourses. He ... Leer más

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  • Comparative Welfare State Politics

    Welfare state reform occurs in all advanced capitalist democracies, but it does not occur in identical ways, to the same degree or with similar consequences. In Comparative Welfare State Politics, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform by asking 'big' questions. Why did we need a welfare state in the first place? How did we ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the comprehensively-revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as 'the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published'. Its fifty-one chapters have been written by acknowledged experts in the field from across Europe, Australia, and North America. Some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are ... Leer más

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  • Development of Welfare States in Europe and America

    de Peter Flora ...
    This volume seeks to contribute to an interdisci-plinary, comparative, and historical study of Western welfare states. It attempts to link their historical dynamics and contemporary problems in an international perspective.Building on collaboration between European-and American-based research groups, the editors have coordinated contributions by economists, political scientists, sociologists, and ... Leer más

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