Capitalists Against Markets
Title | Capitalists Against Markets PDF eBook |
Author | Peter A. Swenson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2002-09-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190286601 |
Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests and preferences. Juxtaposing two widely recognized extremes of welfare, the US and Sweden, Swenson shows that employer interests played a role in welfare state development in both countries.
The Welfare State
Title | The Welfare State PDF eBook |
Author | David Garland |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 177 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199672660 |
This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
Wealth and Welfare States
Title | Wealth and Welfare States PDF eBook |
Author | Irwin Garfinkel |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2010-01-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 019957930X |
Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.
Welfare States and Societies in the Making
Title | Welfare States and Societies in the Making PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Deakin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Welfare state |
ISBN |
Making Markets in the Welfare State
Title | Making Markets in the Welfare State PDF eBook |
Author | Jane R. Gingrich |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2011-06-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139499181 |
Over the past three decades, market reforms have transformed public services such as education, health, and care of the elderly. Whereas previous studies present markets as having similar and largely non-political effects, this book shows that political parties structure markets in diverse ways to achieve distinct political aims. Left-wing attempts to sustain the legitimacy of the welfare state are compared with right-wing wishes to limit the state and empower the private sector. Examining a broad range of countries, time periods, and policy areas, Jane R. Gingrich helps readers make sense of the complexity of market reforms in the industrialized world. The use of innovative multi-case studies and in-depth interviews with senior European policymakers enriches the debate and brings clarity to this multifaceted topic. Scholars and students working on the policymaking process in this central area will be interested in this new conceptualization of market reform.
From Warfare State to Welfare State
Title | From Warfare State to Welfare State PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Allen Eisner |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 390 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780271043500 |
When American history is divided into discrete eras, the New Deal stands, along with the Civil War, as one of those distinctive events that forever change the trajectory of the nation&’s development. The story of the New Deal provides a convenient tool of periodization and a means of interpreting U.S. history and the significance of contemporary political cleavages. Eisner&’s careful examination of the historical record, however, leads one to the conclusion that there was precious little &“new&” in the New Deal. If one wishes to find an event that was clearly transformative, the author argues, one must go back to World War I. From Warfare State to Welfare State reveals that the federal government lagged far behind the private sector in institutional development in the early twentieth century. In order to cope with the crisis of war, government leaders opted to pursue a path of &“compensatory state-building&” by seeking out alliances with private-sector associations. But these associations pursued their own interests in a way that imposed severe constraints on the government&’s autonomy and effectiveness in dealing with the country&’s problems&—a handicap that accounts for many of the shortcomings of government today.
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
Title | Development, Democracy, and Welfare States PDF eBook |
Author | Stephan Haggard |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 497 |
Release | 2020-06-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0691214158 |
This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization. After World War II, communist regimes in Eastern Europe adopted wide-ranging socialist entitlements while conservative dictatorships in East Asia sharply limited social security but invested in education. In Latin America, where welfare systems were instituted earlier, unequal social-security systems favored formal sector workers and the middle class. Haggard and Kaufman compare the different welfare paths of the countries in these regions following democratization and the move toward more open economies. Although these transformations generated pressure to reform existing welfare systems, economic performance and welfare legacies exerted a more profound influence. The authors show how exclusionary welfare systems and economic crisis in Latin America created incentives to adopt liberal social-policy reforms, while social entitlements from the communist era limited the scope of liberal reforms in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. In East Asia, high growth and permissive fiscal conditions provided opportunities to broaden social entitlements in the new democracies. This book highlights the importance of placing the contemporary effects of democratization and globalization into a broader historical context.