Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare - Brossura

Pierson, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 0271029226 ISBN 13: 9780271029221

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Over the past decade, Beyond the Welfare State? has become established as the key text on the emergence and development of welfare states. It offers a comprehensive and remarkably well-informed introduction to the ever more intense debates that surround the history and, still more importantly, the future of welfare in advanced industrialized states. Comprehensively revised and rewritten, the third edition of the book embraces all of the most important theoretical and empirical developments in welfare state studies of recent years.

Working within an explicitly comparative framework, the book draws on a wealth of international evidence to survey what are now the most pressing issues surrounding the future of welfare: among them, globalization, demographic change, declining fertility, postindustrialism, and immigration. It draws extensively on the explosion of work on welfare states that has emerged within the North American political science community over the past ten years as well as giving detailed attention to developments with the UK, continental and northern Europe, and beyond. The third edition of Beyond the Welfare State? remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the complex of issues that surround welfare reform. It will be required reading for anyone who wants to come to terms with what is really at stake in arguments about the future of welfare.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham and the author ofSocialism After Communism (Penn State, 1986).

Product Description:

Book by Pierson Christopher

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0271029226
• ISBN 13: 9780271029221
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 273