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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
No full textThe Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The Handbook is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalization. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state
Introduction (The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare state)
No full textThis article discusses the book, which elucidates the philosophical justifications underlying the welfare state; the approaches, methods, and disciplinary perspectives of comparative social policy research; and the historical development and driving forces of the welfare state, its past achievements, contemporary challenges, and likely future developments. The origins of the Western welfare state date back to the last quarter of the nineteenth century and are closely associated with deep societal, economic, and political transformations taking place at that time. The most influential critique � in terms of its real-world political consequences � was that articulated by theories of neoliberalism. Structural change in the economy in combination with intensified international regime competition triggered fundamental changes in labour markets. There are many who predict the global transfer of power from the United States to China � but a transfer of that magnitude has never before been achieved peacefully
CASTLES, Francis G. (Edit.). The impact of parties: politics and policies in democratic capitalist states. Sage Publications, 1982.
No full textCASTLES, Francis G. (Edit.). The impact of parties: politics and policies indemocratic capitalist states. Sage Publications, 1982.</jats:p
CASTLES, Francis G. (Edit.). The impact of parties: politics and policies in democratic capitalist states. Sage Publications, 1982.
Full text linkCASTLES, Francis G. (Edit.). The impact of parties: politics and policies indemocratic capitalist states. Sage Publications, 1982.</jats:p
The new federalism, fiscal centralisation and public policy outcomes. by Kerry Barwise and Francis G. Castles
No full texttag=1 data=The new federalism, fiscal centralisation and public policy outcomes. by Kerry Barwise and Francis G. Castles
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tag=3 data=The Australian Quarterly,
tag=4 data=63
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tag=6 data=Winter 1991
tag=7 data=165-177.
tag=8 data=FEDERAL-STATE & TERRITORY RELATIONS%TAXATION
tag=10 data=The crucial item on the agenda of the November Premiers' Conference is the question of the division of Commonwealth and State taxing powers and the proposal that the States be empowered to levy a greater range of taxes.
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tag=13 data=CABThe crucial item on the agenda of the November Premiers' Conference is the question of the division of Commonwealth and State taxing powers and the proposal that the States be empowered to levy a greater range of taxes
Breaking with the past? Why the Global Financial crisis led to austerity policies but not to the modernization of the welfare state
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