Democracy And Welfare Economics

Author : Hans van den Doel,Ben van Velthoven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521436370

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Democracy and Welfare Economics by Hans van den Doel,Ben van Velthoven Pdf

This book is a fully revised and updated version of Hans van den Doel's Democracy and Welfare Economics. It presents the economic theory of political decision-making (otherwise known as new political economy, or public choice), providing students with an accessible and clear introduction to this important subject. The authors identify four different methods of decision-making by which the political process transforms the demands of individual citizens into government policy, and these are analyzed in turn with reference to economic theory.

Author : Hans van den Doel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1023876499

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Democracy and Welfare Economics by Hans van den Doel Pdf

Author : van den Doel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521295556

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Democracy and Welfare Economics by van den Doel Pdf

This is a fully revised and updated version of Hans van der Doel"s Democracy and Welfare Economics.

Author : Alice Kessler-Harris,Maurizio Vaudagna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0231180349

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Democracy and the Welfare State by Alice Kessler-Harris,Maurizio Vaudagna Pdf

Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights. In Democracy and the Welfare State, leading historians and social scientists rethink this history in light of global transformations of the economic order and the onslaught of neoliberalism and right-wing populism.

Author : Amy Gutmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691217956

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Democracy and the Welfare State by Amy Gutmann Pdf

The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and equal opportunity for all citizens? Why and in what ways does the welfare state discriminate against women? Can we justify limiting immigration for the sake of safeguarding the welfare of Americans? How can elementary and secondary education be distributed consistently with democratic values? The volume confronts powerful criticisms that have been leveled against the welfare state by conservatives, liberals, and radicals and suggests reforms in welfare state programs that might meet these criticisms. The contributors are Joseph H. Carens, Jon Elster, Robert K. Fullinwider, Amy Gutmann, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Stanley Kelley, Jr., Richard Krouse, Michael McPherson, J. Donald Moon, Carole Pateman, Dennis Thompson, and Michael Walzer.

Author : Clem Brooks,Jeff Manza
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226075952

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Why Welfare States Persist by Clem Brooks,Jeff Manza Pdf

The world’s richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and fiscal pressures, has the welfare state not been replaced by another model? Reconsidering the myriad issues raised by such pressing questions, Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza contend here that public opinion has been an important, yet neglected, factor in shaping welfare states in recent decades. Analyzing data on sixteen countries, Brooks and Manza find that the preferences of citizens profoundly influence the welfare policies of their governments and the behavior of politicians in office. Shaped by slow-moving forces such as social institutions and collective memories, these preferences have counteracted global pressures that many commentators assumed would lead to the welfare state’s demise. Moreover, Brooks and Manza show that cross-national differences in popular support help explain why Scandinavian social democracies offer so much more than liberal democracies such as the United States and the United Kingdom. Significantly expanding our understanding of both public opinion and social policy in the world’s most developed countries, this landmark study will be essential reading for scholars of political economy, public opinion, and democratic theory.

Author : Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691214153

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Development, Democracy, and Welfare States by Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman Pdf

This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization. After World War II, communist regimes in Eastern Europe adopted wide-ranging socialist entitlements while conservative dictatorships in East Asia sharply limited social security but invested in education. In Latin America, where welfare systems were instituted earlier, unequal social-security systems favored formal sector workers and the middle class. Haggard and Kaufman compare the different welfare paths of the countries in these regions following democratization and the move toward more open economies. Although these transformations generated pressure to reform existing welfare systems, economic performance and welfare legacies exerted a more profound influence. The authors show how exclusionary welfare systems and economic crisis in Latin America created incentives to adopt liberal social-policy reforms, while social entitlements from the communist era limited the scope of liberal reforms in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. In East Asia, high growth and permissive fiscal conditions provided opportunities to broaden social entitlements in the new democracies. This book highlights the importance of placing the contemporary effects of democratization and globalization into a broader historical context.

Author : Michael A. Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0889751161

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Freedom, Democracy and Economic Welfare by Michael A. Walker Pdf

Author : Alexander Hicks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501721762

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Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism by Alexander Hicks Pdf

What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfare as a preindustrial atavism; others, as a functional requirement of industrial society. Most recently, scholars have stressed the reformist actions of center-left parties during the decades following World War II, the workings of "new" post-industrial politics lately, and a multifaceted role of politics and state institutions overall. Alexander Hicks thoroughly revises these views, stressing the enduring significance of class organizations, however politically embedded, from the era of Bismark until the present. Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism describes and explains income security programs in affluent and democratic capitalist nations, from the proto-democratic innovators of the 1880s to the globally buffeted democracies of the 1990s. Hicks's account stresses the reformist role of employee political and economic organization and derivative institutions, in particular, social democratic parties, labor unions, and neo-corporatist arrangements. These forces, arrayed as the elements of a transnational and century-long social democratic movement, give direction and continuity to the emergence, development, and contestation of income security policies.

Author : Anthony Downs
Publisher : New York : Harper
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015007226056

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An Economic Theory of Democracy by Anthony Downs Pdf

This book seeks to elucidate its subject-the governing of democratic state-by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deducible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the environment in which they act. He is consciously concerned with the economy in explanation, that is, with attempting to account for phenomena in terms of a very limited number of facts and postulates. He is concerned also with the central features of party politics in any democratic state, not with that in the United States or any other single country.

Author : Péter Tamás Bauer,Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher : The Fraser Institute
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9780889751163

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Freedom, Democracy, and Economic Welfare by Péter Tamás Bauer,Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) Pdf

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Economic, Political, and Civil Freedom, which was held Oct. 5-8, 1986 in Napa Valley, Calif., and organized by the Fraser Institute."Vol. 1"--Spine. Includes bibliographies.

Author : Theodore Pelagidis,Louka T. Katseli,John Milios
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351788403

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Welfare State and Democracy in Crisis by Theodore Pelagidis,Louka T. Katseli,John Milios Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. Investigating the consequences of restrictive austerity policies and the downsizing of the welfare state this edited collection reflects on possible ways out by analyzing economic developments, social conflicts, legal forms and the prevailing directions of economic policy. According to official figures, around 9.5 per cent of the working population of the European Union is unemployed. Fifteen million European citizens are officially looking for work. In other countries such as the US, the increasing wage inequality has marginalized large parts of the population. The precipitous rise in unemployment (mainly in Europe) and income inequality (mainly in the USA) as well as the weakening of democratic and welfare institutions in almost every developed nation have caused huge social and political problems in recent years.

Author : Alex Segura-Ubiergo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139464611

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The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America by Alex Segura-Ubiergo Pdf

This book is one of the first attempts to analyze how developing countries through the early twenty-first century have established systems of social protection, and how these systems have been affected by the processes of globalization and democratization. The book focuses on Latin America to identify factors associated with the evolution of welfare state policies during the pre-globalization period prior to 1979, whilst studying how globalization and democratization have affected governments' fiscal commitment to social spending. In contrast with the Western European experience, more developed welfare systems evolved in countries relatively closed to international trade, while the recent process of globalization that has swept the region has put substantial downward pressure on social security expenditures. Health and education spending has been relatively protected from greater exposure to international markets and has actually increased substantially with the shift to democracy.

Author : Evelyne Huber,John D. Stephens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226356495

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Development and Crisis of the Welfare State by Evelyne Huber,John D. Stephens Pdf

Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens offer the most systematic examination to date of the origins, character, effects, and prospects of generous welfare states in advanced industrial democracies in the post—World War II era. They demonstrate that prolonged government by different parties results in markedly different welfare states, with strong differences in levels of poverty and inequality. Combining quantitative studies with historical qualitative research, the authors look closely at nine countries that achieved high degrees of social protection through different types of welfare regimes: social democratic states, Christian democratic states, and "wage earner" states. In their analysis, the authors emphasize the distribution of influence between political parties and labor movements, and also focus on the underestimated importance of gender as a basis for mobilization. Building on their previous research, Huber and Stephens show how high wages and generous welfare states are still possible in an age of globalization and trade competition.

Author : William R. Keech
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521467683

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Economic Politics by William R. Keech Pdf

This book raises and addresses questions about the consequences of democratic institutions for economic performance.