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Federalism and the welfare state : = new world and European experiences /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Federalism and the welfare state :/ edited by Herbert Obinger, Stephan Leibfried, and Francis G. Castles.
Reminder of title:	new world and European experiences /
remainder title:	Federalism & the Welfare State
other author:	Obinger, Herbert,
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 363 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Social policy - Congresses. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511491856
ISBN:	9780511491856 (ebook)

Federalism and the welfare state : = new world and European experiences /
Federalism and the welfare state :new world and European experiences /Federalism & the Welfare Stateedited by Herbert Obinger, Stephan Leibfried, and Francis G. Castles. - 1 online resource (xvi, 363 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : Federalism and the welfare state / Herbert Obinger, Francis G. Castles and Stephan Leibfried -- Australia : federal constraints and institutional innovations / Francis G. Castles and John Uhr -- Canada : nation-building in a federal welfare state / Keith Banting -- The United States : federalism and its counter-factuals / Kenneth Finegold -- Austria : strong parties in a weak federal polity / Herbert Obinger -- Germany : co-operative federalism and the overgrazing of the fiscal commons / Philip Manow -- Switzerland : the marriage of direct democracy and federalism / Herbert Obinger [and others] -- 'Old' and 'new politics' in federal welfare states / Stephan Leibfried, Francis G. Castles and Herbert Obinger.

In this unique and provocative contribution to the literatures of political science and social policy, ten leading experts question prevailing views 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, the US - reveals that federalism can facilitate and impede social policy development. Development is contingent on several time-dependent factors, including degree of democratization, type of federalism, and the stage of welfare state development and early distribution of social policy responsibility. The reciprocal nature of the federalism-social policy relationship also becomes apparent: the authors identify a set of important bypass structures within federal systems that have resulted from welfare state growth. In an era of retrenchment and unravelling unitary states, this study suggests that federalism may actually protect the welfare state, and welfare states may enhance national integration.

ISBN: 9780511491856 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1012974
Social policy
--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: HN17.5 / .F375 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 320.6

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