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
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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
U. Hyman, 1989
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Errata slip inserted
Bibliography: p. 285-304
Includes index
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Description
A comparative study of the political economy of public welfare, an analysis of the social forces over the course of a century that have led to the adoption of widely differing social welfare systems, and what these processes indicate about the nature of the state.
Table of Contents
- Theories of state responsiveness and state activism
- the methodological problems of comparative macro sociology. Part 1 The growth of the welfare state: institutional patterns in the growth of social welfare
- state responsiveness to social needs and political pressures
- state involvement and patterns of growth in welfare expenditures. Part 2 The growth of mass education systems: institutional patterns in the expansion of education
- state responsiveness to educational demand and political pressures
- state involvement and patterns of growth in educational expenditures
- state responsiveness and state activism.
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