The Welfare State as Crisis Manager: Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis

✍ Scribed by Peter Starke, Alexandra Kaasch, Franca van Hooren (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 255
Series: Transformations of the State
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
The Politics of Crisis Response....Pages 12-27
How the Countries Compare....Pages 28-52
The Oil Shocks of 1973 and 1979: Keynesianism and Beyond....Pages 53-91
Recession in the 1990s: The Resistible Rise of Neoliberalism....Pages 92-123
Managing the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and Its Aftermath: The Role of Social Policy....Pages 124-172
Conclusion....Pages 173-190
Back Matter....Pages 191-240

✦ Subjects

Politics of the Welfare State; Public Economics; Comparative Politics; Social Policy; Social Care; Political Science

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