Federalism and the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences by Herbert Obinger, Stephan Leibfried, Francis G. Castles

Federalism and the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences



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Federalism and the Welfare State: New World and European Experiences Herbert Obinger, Stephan Leibfried, Francis G. Castles
Language: English
Page: 380
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0521847389, 9780511113567
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"This is a wide-ranging and compelling collection of essays that is essential reading for comparative scholars of welfare states and federalism." - Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University

"The volume edited by Obinger, Leibfried and Castles explores the historical development of welfare states in federations in order to "provide a basis for understanding how political decentralization and social policy are likely to interact in the future" (p. 2). In so doing, the volume addresses one of the major shortcomings of much the welfare-state literature: its artificial and limiting self-separation from broader studies of political institutions and comparative politics and political economy. Forcefully institutionalist in approach, the book demonstrates clearly that no policy area, whether social, tax or environmental policy, can be studied without systematic and careful attention to the broader political-economic context within which reform takes place. By grouping federal countries from all of the "worlds of welfare capitalism" popularized by Gøsta Esping-Andersen and the cottage industry of welfare-state typologies that he helped to create,[2] the book shows that other elements of national political economies such as federalism may play a more important role in shaping the substance and dynamics of reform than, for example, the ideological foundations of the political system or the class configurations bequeathed by the process of industrialization. " - Mark I. Vail, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, H-NET

Book Description

In this unique and provocative contribution to the literatures of political science and social policy, ten leading experts question the prevailing view that federalism always inhibits the growth of social solidarity. Their comparative study of the evolution of political institutions and welfare states in the six oldest federal states--Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Switzerland and the US--reveals that federalism impedes and facilitates social policy development and also suggests that federalism may actually protect the welfare state, and welfare states may enhance national integration.

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