The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing international competition for capital and labor are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competiting pressures and offers a coherent analyses of both institutional resilience and institutional change. Adopting an evolutionary approach, this innovative volume demonstrates both how past practices and policies significantly affect the current options and how social and economic forces impinge upon each of these societies in surprisingly different ways. Cross-national in scope and unified in approach, Restructuring the Welfare State examines core issues facing the contemporary welfare state while at the same time significantly advancing historical institutionalist theory.
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"This is a rare combination of a coherent theoretical approach and important empirical evidence. Rothstein, Steinmo and their colleagues give a significant contribution to our understanding of the institutional dynamics of the welfare state." -- Johan P. Olsen, ARENA programme, Oslo
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Bo Rothstein is August Röhss Chair in Political Science at the University of Göteborg, Sweden.
Sven Steinmo is Professor in Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Sven Steinmo is Professor in Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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personal welfare state experiences, welfare state design, attitudes toward state intervention, private service agencies, nonprofit service agencies, political trust, foregone tax revenues, maternity leave programs, corporate welfarism, new insurance program, welfare state intervention, welfare state institutions, racial rule, weak party system, social coverage, universal welfare state, customer institutions, policy venues, tax bureaucrats, user institutions, contingent consent, welfare state programs, social services policy, regime framework, client institutions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State (Theories of Institutional Design) by Bo Rothstein on 4 pages
- The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States by Christopher Howard on page 18, page 74, and page 99
- The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by John D. Stephens on page 100, and page 155
- Citizenship and Social Class (Pluto Perspectives) by Trevor Marshall on page 75, and page 126
- The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis by Walter W. Powell on page 19, and page 100
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- Education Policy and Social Reproduction: Class Inscription & Symbolic Control by John Fitz in Back Matter
- States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance (Political Evolution and Institutional Change) by Matthew Lange in Front Matter
- Social Traps and the Problem of Trust (Theories of Institutional Design) by Bo Rothstein in Back Matter
- The Personal and the Political: How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect Political Trust and Ideology (Political Evolution and Institutional Change) by Staffan Kumlin in Front Matter
- Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition (Political Evolution and Institutional Change) by János Kornai in Front Matter
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