Restructuring The Welfare State (Paperback)

Paperback. 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 labour are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competing 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. The contributors in this volume argue that past practices and policies significantly affect the options available to societies, whether due to interest group mobilization, attitudes towards the state and its provision of welfare, or simply norms of acceptable roles for the state in providing public goods. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…