Welfare-State Regress in Western Europe: Politics, Institutions, Globalization, and Europeanization

Welfare Politics: Building Welfare Institutions

The first generation of the welfare debates has focused on articulating the main drive which leads the development of the welfare state. They mainly exploit political or economic variables, such as industrialization (Wilensky and Lebaux 1958; Wilensky 1975), power resources mobilization of labor class (Korpi 1983; Esping-Andersen 1985), or roles of states (Flora and Alber 1981; Skocpol and Amen...

Globalization and the Welfare State

Cultural Politics of Globalization and Community in East Central Europe

If—as Aimé Césaire pointed out at the time of the birth of the EU’s predecessor—”Europe is morally, spiritually indefensible,” what were 36 leading Hungarian writers, social scientists and human rights activists doing in March 2001 when, in denouncing the widely noted presence of racism in Hungary, they thanked France for the its profound, longue-durée goodness as an essential European feature?...

The politics of the welfare state

cultures, some spread gradually, and a few have been almost completely expropriated by Europeans. The great virtue of this book is that both mundane and exotic substances are discussed without ethnocentricity or moral posturing. The combination of detailed context and wide scope should prove thought-provoking to historians, anthropologists, and even medicomoral campaigners, suggesting connectio...

Globalization and Politics

The past three years have seen political volatility rising against a backdrop of improving economic growth across the major regions and increasingly becalmed financial markets. How does economic output correlate with voter behavior? As globalization slows, the transition away from "globalization" toward a more decisively multipolar world is an emerging trend that will shape politics. In this es...