Capitalism, democracy, and welfare / Torben Iversen.

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 b...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Iversen, Torben
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Series:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Table of 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.