| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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| Note |
Title from e-book title screen (viewed Oct. 16, 2007). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A political economy approach to the welfare state -- A brief analytical history of modern welfare production regimes -- Explaining individual social policy preferences -- Credible commitent, political institutions, and social protection -- Coping with risk : the expansion of social protection -- New tradeoffs, new policies : challenges of the service economy. |
| Summary |
This book, first published in 2005, builds on institutionalist theory in both economics and political science to offer a general political economy framework for the study of welfare capitalism. Based on the key idea that social protection in a modern economy, both inside and outside the state, can be understood as protection of specific investments in human capital, the book offers a systematic explanation of popular preferences for redistributive spending, the economic role of political parties and electoral systems, and labor market stratification (including gender inequality). Contrary to the popular idea that competition in the global economy undermines international differences in the level of social protection, the book argues that these differences are made possible by a high international division of labor. Such a division is what allows firms to specialize in production that requires an abundant supply of workers with specific skills, and hence high demand for protection. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Welfare economics.
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Welfare economics. |
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Human capital.
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Human capital. |
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Income distribution.
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Income distribution. |
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Social choice.
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Social choice. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Iversen, Torben. Capitalism, democracy, and welfare. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2005 9780521848619 (DLC) 2004020247 (OCoLC)56387211 |
| ISBN |
0511161409 (electronic book) |
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9780511161407 (electronic book) |
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9780511758645 (electronic book) |
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0511758642 (electronic book) |
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9786610458530 |
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6610458537 |
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9780511160127 |
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0511160127 |
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9780521848619 |
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052184861X |
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9780521613071 |
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0521613078 |
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0511191421 |
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9780511191428 |
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