Welfare State Change in Leading OECD Countries The Influence of Post
For decades, issues regarding the sustainability of the welfare state have been an important agenda in both academic and public debate. The existing literature primarily points out to economic globalization and post industrial developments as drivers behi
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GABLER RESEARCH EBS Forschung Schriftenreihe der European Business School (EBS) International University · Schloss Reichartshausen Herausgegeben von Univ.-Prof. Ansgar Richter, PhD
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Die European Business School (EBS) – gegründet im Jahr 1971 – ist Deutschlands älteste private Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Betriebswirtschaftslehre im Universitätsrang. Dieser Vorreiterrolle fühlen sich ihre Professoren und Doktoranden in Forschung und Lehre verpflichtet. Mit der Schriftenreihe präsentiert die European Business School (EBS) ausgewählte Ergebnisse ihrer betriebs- und volkswirtschaftlichen Forschung.
Ingmar J. Schustereder
Welfare State Change in Leading OECD Countries The Influence of Post-Industrial and Global Economic Developments With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Joachim Ahrens
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Dissertation European Business School, International University Schloss Reichartshausen, Oestrich-Winkel, 2009 D 1540
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)RUHZRUG For many years, academics and practitioners in economics as well as political science have been engaged in a controversial discussion about the driving forces behind the emergence, change, and reform of modern welfare states. This study aims at enhancing our understanding of institutional, structural, and political adjustment processes in advanced capitalist welfare states. This is being investigated against the background of globalization processes of labor, capital, and goods markets, on the one hand, and post-industrial developments within nation states as outlined by Pierson (2001a) (such as population ageing, de-industrialization, changing household structures, rising unemployment) on the other hand. The key research objective is to analyze the processes of the recent past between 1975 and 2000. In particular, the author addresses two research questions: (1) what is the relative influence of post-industrial and globally economic forces, respectively, with respect to recen
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