Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-80668-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

This book argues that the post-1970 rise in international capital mobility has not contributed to the retrenchment of developed welfare states. Nor has globalization reduced the revenue-raising capacities of governments and undercut the political institutions that support the welfare state. Rather, institutional features of the polity and the welfare state determine the extent to which the economic and political pressures associated with globalization produce welfare state retrenchment. In systems characterized by electoral institutions, social corporatist interest representation and policy-making, centralized political authority, and social insurance-based program structures, pro-welfare state interests are favored. In nations characterized by majoritarian electoral institutions, pluralist interest representation and policy-making, decentralization of policy-making authority, and liberal program structure, the economic and political pressures attendant on globalization are translated into rollbacks of social protection. Globalization has had least impact on large welfare states of Northern Europe and most effect on small welfare states of Anglo nations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swank, Duane

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Gesundheitsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Globalization, democracy, and the welfare state; 3. Global capital, political institutions, and contemporary welfare state development: quantitative analysis; 4. Big welfare states in global markets: internationalization and welfare state reform in the Nordic social democracies; 5. Globalization and policy change in corporatist conservative welfare states; 6. Internationalization and liberal welfare states: a synopsis; 7. Assessing long-term impacts: the impact of globalization on taxation, institutions, and control of the macroeonomy; 8. Conclusions: national welfare states in a global economy.