Never has the Left held power in so many advanced economies, yet this has had little effect on economic policy. This book examines the successes and failures of govenments in Europe and Australia to chart distinctive courses in the face of neoliberal backlash against state intervention, the welfare state, and guaranteed full employment.
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`this book should be required reading for those social scientists and economists who predict global convergence on 'efficient', market-conforming institutions and policies' Journal of International Studies
`provides an invaluable reference work for learning from the local successes and pervasive limitations of social democracy in the 1980s and 1990s' Red Pepper
`provides an invaluable reference work for learning from the local successes and pervasive limitations of social democracy in the 1980s and 1990s' Red Pepper
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Andrew Glyn is Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also Consultant to the National Union of Mineworkers, ILO, and the UN. He has previously worked for H.M. Treasury and for the University of Tokyo.
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At the turn of the century more parties of the Left were in government in advanced capitalist countries than ever before, including, for the first time ever, those of the four largest West European countries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coordinated production regimes, union contract coverage, centralized bargaining system, stylized history, social democratic welfare states, solidaristic wage policies, coordinated wage bargaining, solidaristic wage policy, coordinated bargaining, wage discipline, wage drift, clientelistic politics, extending democracy, franc fort, wage dispersion, planning agreements, liberal welfare states, wage equality, stabilization programme, wage restraint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, United States, Australian Labor, Labour Party, New Deal, Labor Party, Second World War, Andrew Glyn, National Party, Economic Outlook, Employment Outlook, Historical Statistics, New Democracy, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, United Kingdom, Bank of England, Bank of Greece, European Community, Leszek Balcerowicz, Tony Blair, Western Europe, World Bank, Bruno Kreisky, Central Europe New!
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At the turn of the century more parties of the Left were in government in advanced capitalist countries than ever before, including, for the first time ever, those of the four largest West European countries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coordinated production regimes, union contract coverage, centralized bargaining system, stylized history, social democratic welfare states, solidaristic wage policies, coordinated wage bargaining, solidaristic wage policy, coordinated bargaining, wage discipline, wage drift, clientelistic politics, extending democracy, franc fort, wage dispersion, planning agreements, liberal welfare states, wage equality, stabilization programme, wage restraint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, United States, Australian Labor, Labour Party, New Deal, Labor Party, Second World War, Andrew Glyn, National Party, Economic Outlook, Employment Outlook, Historical Statistics, New Democracy, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, United Kingdom, Bank of England, Bank of Greece, European Community, Leszek Balcerowicz, Tony Blair, Western Europe, World Bank, Bruno Kreisky, Central Europe New!
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- Industrial Relations in the New Europe (Industrial Relations in Context) by Anthony Ferner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Labour Party: A Centenary History by Brian Brivati on page 200, page 216, and page 313
- Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Herbert Kitschelt in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Economic Policy by Brian Atkinson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Great Experiment: Labour Parties and Public Policy Transformation in Australia and New Zealand by Francis G. Castles in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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