The Disappearing State?: Retrenchment Realities in an Age of Globalisation - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847209866 ISBN 13 : 9781847209863

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Whilst the prevailing orthodoxy of the expenditure retrenchment literature
is that globalisation and neo-liberal ideas are leading to a downsizing of the state, empirical research - basing its conclusions on patterns of welfare state spending - does not support such a view. This book brings a new perspective to bear by looking at what has been happening to other areas of the state's activity.

Edited by Francis G. Castles, a leading authority in the field, and bringing together an outstanding group of British, German and American scholars, it examines trends in non-social or 'core' spending on public administration, defence, public order, education, economic affairs and debt financing and in the regulatory ordering of the economic sphere. The book not only opens up new areas of comparative public policy research, >but also demonstrates clearly that there have been real reductions in the reach of state in some areas, although patterns of causation are more complex and varied than generally presumed by the retrenchment literature.

The research findings reported in The Disappearing State? provide pivotal, relevant and challenging core material for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in public and social policy, political economy and the sociology of the modern state.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edited by Francis G. Castles, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Australian National University. He was formerly Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847209866
• ISBN 13: 9781847209863
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Castles Francis G.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne