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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 oftheories suggesting that the welfare state is in crisis. Systematically using data for 21 advanced OECD nations, he distinguishes crisis myths from crisis reali...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Castles, Francis G. / Lehner, Franz / Schmidt, Manfred G. -- The Politics of Labour Market Policy Structural and Political Determinants of Rates of Unemployment in Industrial Nations / Schmidt, Manfred G. -- The Political Economy of Distributive Conflict / Lehner, Franz -- Welfare and Warfare Critical Options and Conscious Choice in Public Policy / Keman, Hans -- Analysis of Decisio...

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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. Bringing together empirical methods, current information from 21 advanced countries, and insights from across the social sciences, Castles distinguishes welfare crisis myths from welfare crisis realities, and presents likely trajectories of welfare state development in coming dec...

This book looks at the public policy profiles of eight advanced capitalist states and asks what makes them distinctive. The volume also examines national policies comparatively by exploring the extent to which each nation fits into patterns established in cross-national literature.

This volume, first published in 2005, focuses on more than a century of interaction between political institutions and social policy outcomes.

Ten experts question prevailing views that federalism always inhibits the growth of social solidarity. Their comparative study of the evolution of political institutions and welfare states in the six oldest federal states--Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, the U.S.--reveals that federalism can facilitate and impede social policy development. Development is contingent on several time-dependent factors and this study suggests tha...

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state.