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Can the welfare state compete?: a comparative study of five advanced capitalist countries

Gough, Ian (1991) Can the welfare state compete?: a comparative study of five advanced capitalist countries. Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK. ISBN 9780333487556

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Abstract

The authors examine how the USA, Great Britain, France, Sweden and Germany have responded to the increasing challenge of international competition since the mid-1970s. Apart from in Sweden, the pursuit of competitiveness has undermined economic and social citizenship rights, and this has, in Britain and the USA, engendered an assault upon the idea of the welfare state. Solidarity and social discipline will be severely tested if the welfare state is to remain economically and politically viable in a highly competitive modern world.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.palgrave.com/home/index.asp
Additional Information: © 1991 Macmillan -- (Spanish translation) Competitividad Economica y Estado de Bienestar translated by R. Muñoz de Bustillo. Madrid: Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, 1983. ISBN: 84-7434-817-X
Divisions: Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited: 15 Jun 2011 14:27
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:28
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/36707

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