Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change
by Bo Rothstein
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The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing international competition for capital and labor are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competiting pressures and offers a coherent analyses of both institutional resilience and institutional change. Adopting an evolutionary approach, this innovative volume demonstrates both how past practices show more andpolicies significantly affect the current options and how social and economic forces impinge upon each of these societies in surprisingly different ways. Cross-national in scope and unified in approach,Restructuring the Welfare State examines core issues facing the contemporary welfare state while at the same time significantly advancing historical institutionalist theory. show lessTags
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Bo Rothstein holds the August Rhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg and is the co-founder of the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute at this department. During 2016 and 2017 he served as Professor of Government and Public Policy at University of Oxford-Nuffield College. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage show more Foundation, Collegium Budapest for Advanced Study, Harvard University, University of Washington-Seattle, Cornell University, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, the Australian National University, and Stanford University. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Finnish Society of Arts and Letters, and the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg. show less
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