Future of the Welfare State Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities

Name: Future of the Welfare State Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities
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ISBN: 9780199273928

ISBN-10: 0199273928

ISBN-13: 9780199273928

Edition: 2004

Authors: Francis G. Castles

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Written by one of the world's leading policy researchers, this book seeks to assess the threat posed to modern welfare states by globalization and demographic change. Using empirical methods, and bringing together insights from across the social sciences, Castles interrogates a range of theories suggesting that the welfare state is in crisis. Systematically using data for 21 advanced OECD nations, he distinguishes crisis myths from crisis realities, locating, in the process, likely trajectories of welfare state development in coming decades. The findings of this book confront many of the basic assumptions of contemporary scholarship. Economic globalization has not led to a 'race to the…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




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