| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 891 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 777-867) and index. |
| Summary |
Drawing on data covering the past 50 years and more than 400 interviews with top decision-makers, Wilensky provides a richly detailed account of the common problems modern governments confront and their contrasting styles of conflict resolution. |
| Contents |
FIGURES; TABLES; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART ONE: PATHS OF DEVELOPMENT OF RICH DEMOCRACIES; PART TWO: THE WELFARE STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY; PART THREE: SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; Appendix A: Methods; Appendix B: Concepts and Measures of Left and Catholic Party Power; Appendix C: Social Spending, GNP, Tax Expenditures, and Housing Expenditures; Appendix D: Sector Spending Correlations; Appendix E: Family Policy; Appendix F: Estimating Reliance on Means Testing; Appendix G: Measures of Economic Performance; Appendix H: Measures of Central Bank Autonomy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Welfare state -- Case studies.
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Welfare state. |
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Case studies.
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| Subject |
Comparative government.
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Comparative government. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Interculturele vergelijkingen (vorm)
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilensky, Harold L. Rich democracies. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520231767 (DLC) 2001053048 (OCoLC)47831595 |
| ISBN |
9780520928336 (electronic book) |
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0520928334 (electronic book) |
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9780520231764 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520231767 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520232792 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520232798 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1597348732 |
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9781597348737 |
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