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Can the Welfare State Compete?: A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries

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Can the Welfare State Compete?: A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries - Gough, Ian (Editor), and Pfaller, Alfred (Editor), and Therborn, Goran (Editor)
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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 ...

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Can the Welfare State Compete?: A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries 1991, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

ISBN-13: 9780333487556

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Can the Welfare State Compete?: A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries 1991, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9781349107186

1991 edition

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