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Can the Welfare State Compete?: A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries

By Ian Gough , Göran Therborn (eds.) , Alfred Pfaller

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1991
ISBN
978-1-349-10718-6, 978-1-349-10716-2
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-10716-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
38 MB (39526431 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XI, 354\360
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice; Pub

Description

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.

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