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Government ideology, economic pressure, and risk privatization : how economic worldviews shape social policy choices in times of crisis /

For nearly forty years now, governments in rich democracies have been shifting labor market risks from the state and employers to employees, cutting the generosity of social programs even as they tightened restrictions on eligibility. This book analyzes those changes in eighteen countries and shows...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horn, Alexander (Professor of political science) (Autor)
Formato: Tesis Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Colección:Changing welfare states.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Risk Privatization, Economic Crisis, and the Primacy of Politics
  • 2. Much Ado about Nothing? Retrenchment versus Resilience
  • 3. Theoretical and Analytical Framework: What We (Do Not) Know
  • 4. Theoretical and Analytical Framework: Taking Ideology Seriously
  • 5. The "End of Ideology?" Government Ideology over Time
  • 6. The Ideological Complexion of Government and Retrenchment
  • 7. Ideology Still Matters: Findings, Limitations, and Implications
  • Annex
  • References
  • Index