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The Disappearing State?: Retrenchment Realities In An Age Of Globalisation

Francis G. Castles

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Whilst the prevailing orthodoxy of the expenditure retrenchment literature
is that globalisation and neo-liberal ideas are leading to a downsizing of
the state, empirical research - basing its conclusions on patterns of
welfare state spending - does not support such a view. This book brings a
new perspective to bear by looking at what has been happening to other
areas of the state's activity.

Edited by Francis G. Castles, a leading authority in the field, and
bringing together an outstanding group of British, German and American
scholars, it examines trends in non-social or 'core' spending on public
administration, defence, public order, education, economic affairs and
debt financing and in the regulatory ordering of the economic sphere. The
book not only opens up new areas of comparative public policy research,
but also demonstrates clearly that there have been real reductions in the
reach of state in some areas, although patterns of causation are more
complex and varied than generally presumed by the retrenchment literature.

The research findings reported in The Disappearing State? provide pivotal,
relevant and challenging core material for advanced undergraduate and
postgraduate courses in public and social policy, political economy and
the sociology of the modern state.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Release: April 25, 2007

ISBN: 184542297X

ISBN 13: 9781845422974

The Disappearing State?: Retrenchment Realities In An Age Of Globalisation

Francis G. Castles

0/5 ( ratings)

Whilst the prevailing orthodoxy of the expenditure retrenchment literature
is that globalisation and neo-liberal ideas are leading to a downsizing of
the state, empirical research - basing its conclusions on patterns of
welfare state spending - does not support such a view. This book brings a
new perspective to bear by looking at what has been happening to other
areas of the state's activity.

Edited by Francis G. Castles, a leading authority in the field, and
bringing together an outstanding group of British, German and American
scholars, it examines trends in non-social or 'core' spending on public
administration, defence, public order, education, economic affairs and
debt financing and in the regulatory ordering of the economic sphere. The
book not only opens up new areas of comparative public policy research,
but also demonstrates clearly that there have been real reductions in the
reach of state in some areas, although patterns of causation are more
complex and varied than generally presumed by the retrenchment literature.

The research findings reported in The Disappearing State? provide pivotal,
relevant and challenging core material for advanced undergraduate and
postgraduate courses in public and social policy, political economy and
the sociology of the modern state.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Release: April 25, 2007

ISBN: 184542297X

ISBN 13: 9781845422974

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