Solidarity Without The State

Author : Matthieu Leimgruber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139470308

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This book presents the first comprehensive history of the interplay of public and private provision that made the Swiss 'three-pillar' pension system into a model for the World Bank and other pension reformers during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Through a study of business federations', private pension lobbyists' and insurance companies' archives, Matthieu Leimgruber charts the century-long battle waged over the boundaries of state and private pensions. He shows how a distinctive path towards social provision has laid the foundation for a pension fund industry rivalling that of the United States and the United Kingdom. Through this comparative approach Matthieu Leimgruber is also able to question current assumptions about the strict dichotomy between 'Anglo-Saxon' and 'continental' models of welfare provision. This study will appeal to scholars of twentieth-century European history, economic history, political economy and welfare economics.

Author : Matthieu Leimgruber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521875404

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Solidarity without the State? by Matthieu Leimgruber Pdf

This book presents the first comprehensive history of the interplay of public and private provision that made the Swiss 'three-pillar' pension system into a model for the World Bank and other pension reformers during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Through a study of business federations', private pension lobbyists' and insurance companies' archives, Matthieu Leimgruber charts the century-long battle waged over the boundaries of state and private pensions. He shows how a distinctive path towards social provision has laid the foundation for a pension fund industry rivalling that of the United States and the United Kingdom. Through this comparative approach Matthieu Leimgruber is also able to question current assumptions about the strict dichotomy between 'Anglo-Saxon' and 'continental' models of welfare provision. This study will appeal to scholars of twentieth-century European history, economic history, political economy and welfare economics.

Author : Vestert Borger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Euro
ISBN : 1108864635

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The Currency of Solidarity by Vestert Borger Pdf

"In their fight against the debt crisis, the EU and its member states took measures that have profoundly changed the euro. As a result, it now differs fundamentally from when it was introduced by the Treaty of Maastricht. Surprisingly, this change has come about with hardly any formal amendment to the Union's 'basic constitutional charter', the Treaties. How, then, to understand this change? This book argues that the constitution of the EU has transformed, which occurs when constitutions change without amendment. The transformation is characterized by a broadening of the currency union conception of stability. Whereas it used to grant overriding importance to price stability, it now also attributes great significance to financial stability. Financial assistance operations for distressed member states well as government bond purchases by the European Central Bank are its key manifestations. Using solidarity as its lens, the book conceptualises the unity of the member states and analyses how this was preserved by political leaders during the crisis. It then shows how this changed the euro's legal set-up of and why the ECJ could not turn against this change in Pringle and Gauweiler"--

Author : K. Bayertz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401592451

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Solidarity by K. Bayertz Pdf

Solidarity as a phenomenon lies like an erratic block in the midst of the moral landscape of our age. Until now, the geologists familiar with this landscape - ethicists and moral theorists - have taken it for granted, have circumnavigated it! in any case, they have been incapable of moving it. In the present volume, scientists from diverse disciplines discuss and examine the concept of solidarity, its history, its scope and its limits.

Author : Shana Penn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0472113852

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Solidarity's Secret by Shana Penn Pdf

Drawing on a decade of interviews, Penn (Union Theological Center in Berkeley, California) pieces together the huge, largely unstudied contributions of the Polish women whose pro-democracy work was obscured by the more public successes of their male counterparts. While prominent men like Lech Walesa were underground or in jail during the 1980s mart

Author : Kathleen Thelen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107053168

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Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity by Kathleen Thelen Pdf

This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the "Golden Era" of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it.

Author : Cheol-Sung Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107174047

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When Solidarity Works by Cheol-Sung Lee Pdf

Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around 'embedded cohesiveness'.

Author : Michael A. McCarthy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501708190

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Dismantling Solidarity by Michael A. McCarthy Pdf

Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political imperative to promote capitalist growth.Pension development has followed three paths of marketization in America since the New Deal, each distinct but converging: occupational pension plans were adopted as an alternative to real increases in Social Security benefits after World War II, private pension assets were then financialized and invested into the stock market, and, since the 1970s, traditional pension plans have come to be replaced with riskier 401(k) retirement plans. Comparing each episode of change, Dismantling Solidarity mounts a forceful challenge to common understandings of America’s private pension system and offers an alternative political economy of the welfare state. McCarthy weaves together a theoretical framework that helps to explain pension marketization with structural mechanisms that push policymakers to intervene to promote capitalist growth and avoid capitalist crises and contingent historical factors that both drive them to intervene in the particular ways they do and shape how their interventions bear on welfare change. By emphasizing the capitalist context in which policymaking occurs, McCarthy turns our attention to the structural factors that drive policy change. Dismantling Solidarity is both theoretically and historically detailed and superbly argued, urging the reader to reconsider how capitalism itself constrains policymaking. It will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, historians, and those curious about the relationship between capitalism and democracy.

Author : Cecilia M. Bailliet
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781803923758

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Research Handbook on International Solidarity and the Law by Cecilia M. Bailliet Pdf

This comprehensive and insightful Research Handbook addresses the interpretation of international solidarity within topical legal regimes and regional systems, as well as in relation to decolonization and the concepts of Ummah and Ubuntu. It examines the way in which international solidarity enables the global community to respond to intercontinental challenges, including climate change, forced migration, health emergencies, and inequality.

Author : Jackie Smith,Charles Chatfield,Ron Pagnucco
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815627432

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Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics by Jackie Smith,Charles Chatfield,Ron Pagnucco Pdf

"Transnational Social Movements and Global Social Politics examines a cast of global actors left out of the traditional studies of international politics. It generates a theoretically informed view of the relationships between an emerging global civil society - partly manifested in transnational social movements - and international political institutions. This book consists of fifteen essays, all written by experts in the field. The first three parts analyze the rise of transnational social movements in the context of broad twentieth-century trends. A fourth part builds a theoretical framework from which organizations influencing global governance can be viewed."--

Author : Timothy Stacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351167826

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Myth and Solidarity in the Modern World by Timothy Stacey Pdf

In the context of the rise of reactionary politics across the globe, this book seeks new ways of developing solidarity across religious, political and economic differences. Drawing on an increasingly influential Christian theological movement, postliberalism, it claims that the dominance of liberal, secular rationality has blinded people to the fundamental role of transcendence and myth in developing solidarity. The result is either atrophy, or a retrenching in divisive myths of faith, race, nation or economic status. Liberalism is now a dominant force across the globe. But its resonance in the Anglo-Saxon West, from which it originates and has been most fully realized, is relatively underexplored. The book thus follows two simultaneous lines of enquiry. Firstly, a genealogical study of social scientific and policy iterations of the relationship between belief and solidarity in the Anglo-Saxon West, placing postliberal theory into dialogue with the sociology and anthropology of religion, politics and economics. Secondly, it draws from original ethnographic research with groups in London, UK, that seek to develop solidarity in the face of deep-seated difference. By bringing a new way of framing these contentious debates about contemporary society, this research offers tools for more productive conversations around religious and political topics, in particular concluding with a clear policy proposal. It is, therefore, a useful resource for both academics of theology and religious studies, political philosophy, sociology and anthropology; and for politicians, policy makers and practitioners hoping to develop solidarity in the modern world.

Author : Eleonora Milazzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192885722

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Refugee Protection and Solidarity by Eleonora Milazzo Pdf

Refugee Protection and Solidarity looks to define the duties that EU member states have towards each other in the field of refugee protection, employing analytical tools of normative political theory to bring moral clarity to a highly divisive debate on both principles and political feasibility. There is a discrepancy between the commitment to solidarity enshrined in EU law and the reality of asylum provision in the EU. The events related to the EU 'migration crisis' of 2015/16 have exposed this discrepancy and questioned the nascent notion of EU solidarity at its core. The book argues that the debate on distributive justice in the EU fails to consider refugee protection as a field in which distributive duties apply in ways similar to other domains such as social policy, as well as exploring what justifications states invoke to justify non-compliance with their duties. Eleonora Milazzo contends that, as currently framed, the debate on the ethics of refugee protection fails to account for the nature and effect of associational ties among states in relation to asylum provision, which is important for the assessment of responsibility shirking.

Author : Miguel A. Centeno,Agustin E. Ferraro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107311305

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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 1 by Miguel A. Centeno,Agustin E. Ferraro Pdf

The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.

Author : Sally J. Scholz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271047218

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Political Solidarity by Sally J. Scholz Pdf

Author : Jeremy Brecher,Tim Costello,Brendan Smith
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896086224

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Globalization from Below by Jeremy Brecher,Tim Costello,Brendan Smith Pdf

Brecher, Costello, and Smith chart out a dynamic and innovative strategy for building the movement to challenge unchecked coporate globalization.