Can the welfare state compete? : a comparative study of five advanced capitalist countries
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Can the welfare state compete? : a comparative study of five advanced capitalist countries
Macmillan Academic and Professional, 1991
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Bibliography: p. 311-332
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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The authors examine how the USA, Great Britain, France, Sweden and Germany have responded to the increasing challenge of international competition since the mid-1970s. Apart from in Sweden, the pursuit of competitiveness has undermined economic and social citizenship rights, and this has, in Britain and the USA, engendered an assault upon the idea of the welfare state. Solidarity and social discipline will be severely tested if the welfare state is to remain economically and politically viable in a highly competitive modern world.
Table of Contents
- Preface - The Issue
- A.Pfaller - The Competitiveness of Industrialized Welfare States: A Cross Country Survey
- A.Pfaller & I.Gough - The United States
- A.Pfaller - The United Kingdom
- I.Gough - France
- X.Greffe - Federal Republic of Germany
- M.Kruger & A.Pfaller - Sweden
- G.Therborn - Welfare Statism and International Competition: The Lesson of the Case Studies
- A.Pfaller, I.Gough & G.Therborn - Notes - Bibliography - Index
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