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Recasting welfare capitalism : economic adjustment in contemporary France and Germany /

This work employs a sophisticated and original theoretical approach to compare welfare states and political-economic adjustment in Germany and France. Mark Vail examines how and why institutional change takes place and what factors characterize economic evolution when moving from times of prosperity...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vail, Mark I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: recasting welfare capitalism in an age of austerity
  • The politics of austerity in advanced industrial democracies
  • The rise and fall of the postwar golden age and the development of French and German welfare capitalism
  • Recasting France's political-economic order: the demise of dirigisme and the turn to the market
  • German reunification and the economic and social incorporation of Eastern Germany
  • Modernizing the French and German labor markets in an age of austerity
  • The shifting politics of French and German social-insurance reform
  • New social rights in France and Germany
  • Conclusion: French and German welfare-capitalist adjustment in historical and comparative perspective.