Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Global capital, political institutions, and policy change in developed welfare states / Duane Swank.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in comparative politicsPublication details: Camgridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511014481
  • 9780511014482
  • 0521806682
  • 9780521806688
  • 0521001447
  • 9780521001441
  • 9780511613371
  • 0511613377
  • 9780511044274
  • 0511044275
  • 0511156820
  • 9780511156823
  • 9780511304255
  • 0511304250
  • 9786610433575
  • 6610433577
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global capital, political institutions, and policy change in developed welfare states.DDC classification:
  • 330.12/6 21
LOC classification:
  • JC479 .S9 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 83.13
  • QM 350
  • QX 000
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Globalization, Democracy, and the Welfare State; 3 Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Contemporary Welfare State Development: Quantitative Analysis; 4 Big Welfare States in Global Markets: Internationalization and Welfare State Reform in the Nordic Social Democracies; 5 Globalization and Policy Change in Corporatist Conservative Welfare States; 6 Internationalization and Liberal Welfare States: A Synopsis.
Summary: This book argues that the dramatic post-1970 rise in international capital mobility has not systematically contributed to the retrenchment of developed welfare states as many claim. Nor has globalization directly reduced the revenue-raising capacities of governments and undercut the political institutions that support the welfare state. Rather, institutional features of the polity and the welfare state determine the extent to which the economic and political pressures associated with globalization produce Welfare state retrenchment.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Business Available
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324) and index.

This book argues that the dramatic post-1970 rise in international capital mobility has not systematically contributed to the retrenchment of developed welfare states as many claim. Nor has globalization directly reduced the revenue-raising capacities of governments and undercut the political institutions that support the welfare state. Rather, institutional features of the polity and the welfare state determine the extent to which the economic and political pressures associated with globalization produce Welfare state retrenchment.

Print version record.

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Globalization, Democracy, and the Welfare State; 3 Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Contemporary Welfare State Development: Quantitative Analysis; 4 Big Welfare States in Global Markets: Internationalization and Welfare State Reform in the Nordic Social Democracies; 5 Globalization and Policy Change in Corporatist Conservative Welfare States; 6 Internationalization and Liberal Welfare States: A Synopsis.

Master record variable field(s) change: 082

Powered by Koha