This book offers a careful examination of the politics of social policy in an era of austerity and conservative governance. Focusing on the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Pierson provides a compelling explanation for the welfare state's durability and for the few occasions where each government was able to achieve significant cutbacks. The programmes of...(展开全部)

This book offers a careful examination of the politics of social policy in an era of austerity and conservative governance. Focusing on the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Pierson provides a compelling explanation for the welfare state's durability and for the few occasions where each government was able to achieve significant cutbacks. The programmes of...(展开全部)

The third title in the Jameson Books-Students for Liberty Series, this is a collection of essays by eminent political economists from around the world. Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? The previous generation and its predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling en...(展开全部)

The third title in the Jameson Books-Students for Liberty Series, this is a collection of essays by eminent political economists from around the world. Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? The previous generation and its predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling en...(展开全部)

Claus Offe is one of the leading social scientists working in Germany today, and his work, particularly on the welfare state, has been enormously influential both in Europe and the United States. Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Offe's essays to appear in a single volume in English, and it contains a selection of his most important recent work on t...(展开全部)

Claus Offe is one of the leading social scientists working in Germany today, and his work, particularly on the welfare state, has been enormously influential both in Europe and the United States. Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Offe's essays to appear in a single volume in English, and it contains a selection of his most important recent work on t...(展开全部)

This edited volume, now available in paperback, provides fresh empirical evidence of far reaching transformations of the welfare state globally that have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private domains within the mixed economies of welfare. By investigating the various modes of policy intervention, such as financing and the provision and regulation of social policy,...(展开全部)

This edited volume provides fresh empirical evidence of far reaching transformations of the welfare state globally that have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private domains within the mixed economies of welfare. By investigating the various modes of policy intervention, such as financing and the provision and regulation of social policy, it provides a nuanced accoun...(展开全部)

The welfare states of the affluent democracies now stand at the centre of political discussion and social conflict. In these path-breaking essays, an international team of leading analysts rejects simplistic claims about the impact of economic 'globalization'. Economic, demographic, and social pressures on the welfare state are very real, but many of the most fundamental challe...(展开全部)

弗兰茨·奥本海默（英语：Franz Oppenheimer，1864年3月30日－1943年9月30日），生于柏林，死于加州洛杉矶，德国犹太社会学家，政治经济学家，出版的作品涉及主权国家的基本社会理念。 在弗雷堡和柏林学习了医学后，奥本海姆在1886至1895年间在柏林行医。自1890年以后，他开始倾向于研究社会政治学和社会经济学问题。在结束医生生涯后，他成为了《上午世界》（Welt am Morgen）杂志的主编，在这里结识了弗雷德里克·瑙曼，当时瑙曼还在替不同的报社挨家挨户送报纸。 1909年，奥本海姆凭借一篇论述经济学家大卫·李嘉图的论文获得了基尔大学的博士学位。自1909年至1917年，奥本海姆在柏林先是做无薪讲师，然后做了两年挂名教授。在1914年他成了“解放俄国犹太人德国委员会”组织的联合创始人之一。1919年他接受了法兰克福的约翰-沃尔...(展开全部)