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)

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 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)

A long-awaited second edition to a ground-breaking publication, The New Politics of Disablement has been extensively updated and revitalized to reflect the development in social theory and the understandings of disablement. With a new global angle, it is an essential discourse for anyone interested in disability issues.

This book examines the social bases of the European welfare state, and the interests developed in or against social policy by various classes of society, during the period 1875-1975 in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. By analysing the competing concerns of different social factors that lie behind the evolution of social policy, it explains why some nations have had...(展开全部)

帕特里克·邓利维(Patrick Dunleavy)教授就职于伦敦政治经济学院(London School of Economics and Political Science)及伦敦社会科学院(The Academy of the Social Science，London)，任政治学及公共政策学的教授。他撰写过数部政治学的专著和学术文章，并兼任《政治研究》(Political Studies)期刊的主编。 20多年来，帕特里克教授在伦敦政治经济学院指导过30多位博士生，并教授一门关于如何起草及撰写博士论文的跨学科的大型课程长达十余年之久。本书由帕特里克教授根据自己在多年指导学生及执教过程中所积累的丰富经验编纂而成。 布伦登·奥利里(Brendan O’Leary)是美国宾夕法尼亚大学社会科学的教授以及所罗门·阿施中心主任。

约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷思，美国著名经济学家、新制度学派领军人物。哈佛大学保罗·M．沃伯格经济学名誉教授。加尔布雷思著述颇丰，涉猎也极广。除本书外，还出版了《1929年大崩盘》《美国资本主义：抗衡力量的概念》《富裕社会》《美好社会——人类议程》《权力的分析》《经济学和公共目标》《不确定的时代》《我们时代的生活》等学术著作。

约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷思，美国著名经济学家、新制度学派领军人物。哈佛大学保罗·M．沃伯格经济学名誉教授。加尔布雷思著述颇丰，涉猎也极广。除本书外，还出版了《1929年大崩盘》《美国资本主义：抗衡力量的概念》《富裕社会》《美好社会——人类议程》《权力的分析》《经济学和公共目标》《不确定的时代》《我们时代的生活》等学术著作。

With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in "The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies. Advertising is the means by which these companies manage demand and create consum...(展开全部)