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Welfare and Work in the Open Economy
Volume II: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges in Twelve Countries
Edited by Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt
678 pages
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tables and line diagrams
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924092-0
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Paperback
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07 September 2000
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- Contributions from leading scholars in the study of welfare states
- Hotly debated topic
- Cross-disciplinary approach
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 the differences in countries' vulnerabilities and capabilities, the effectiveness of their 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 participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition.
Readership: Scholars and students of political economy, comparative politics, sociology, economics, and business 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.
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Edited by Fritz W. Scharpf, Director, Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, and Vivien A. Schmidt, Department of Political Science, Boston University Contributors:
Mats Benner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden.
Giuliano Bonoli is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (Germany) and 1999/2000 J.F.
Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Pavia and directs the Center for Comparative Political Research at the Bocconi University of Milan.
Steffen Ganghof is a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
Elisabetta Gualmini is assistant professor at the University of Bologna, where she teaches Comparative Public Administration.
Anton Hemerijck is senior lecturer in the Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands and visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute of the Study of Societies in Cologne.
Adrienne Héritier, is professor of political
science and co-director of the Max-Planck Project Group on 'Common Goods: Law, Politics and Economics'.
Jonah Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
André Mach is teaching-assistant at the Institut d'études politiques et internationales, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Philip Manow, political scientist, is researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.
Martin Rhodes is Professor of European Public Policy at the European University Institute in Florence.
Susanne K. Schmidt is research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
Herman Schwartz is
associate professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.
Eric Seils has studied political science at the Universities of Konstanz and Huddersfield.
Brigitte Unger is University Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Economics and Business Administration, in Vienna, Austria.
Torben Bundgaard Vad is political scientist and works at Danish Commerce & Services in Copenhagen, Denmark as a political consultant with knowledge services as his main area of expertise.
Jelle Visser is professor of empirical sociology and sociology of labor and organization at the University of Amsterdam, where he directs the Centre for research of European Societies and
Industrial Relations (CESAR).
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"These books are major benchmark studies of welfare states and the problems of adjustment, and provide lucid and valuable analyses of contemporary capitalism." - West European Politics "Much of the two books is taken up with charting in very rich and absorbing detail the precise nature of responses and adjustments. There are some truly excellent country studies." - West European Politics
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1: Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt: Introduction
2: Martin Rhodes: Restructuring the British welfare state: Between domestic constraints and global imperatives
3: Herman Schwartz: Internationalization and two liberal welfare states: Australia and New Zealand
4: Giuliano Bonoli and Andre Mach: Switzerland: Adjustment politics within institutional constraints
5: Anton Hemerijck, Brigitte Unger, and Jelle Visser: How small countries egotiate change: Twenty-five years of policy adjustment in Austria, the netherlands, and Belgium
6: Philip Manow and Eric Seils: Adjusting badly: The German welfare state, structural change, and the open economy
7: Jonah D. Levy: France: Directing adjustment?
8: Maurizio Ferrera and Elisabetta Gualmini: Italy: Rescue from without?
9: Mats Benner and Torben Bundgaard Vad: Sweden and Denmark: Defending the Welfare State
10: Mary Daly: A Fine Balance: Women's labor market particilation in international comparison
11: Bernhard Ebbinghaus: Any way out of exit from work? Reversing the entrenched pathways of early retirement?
12: Adrienne Heritier and Susanne K. Schmidt: After liberalization: Pubic-interest services and employment itilities
13: Steffen Gangholf: Adjusting national tax policy to economic internationalization: Strategies and outcomes
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