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The authors examine how the USA, Great Britain, France, Sweden and Germany have responded to the increasing challenge of international competition since the mid-1970s. Apart from in Sweden, the pursuit of competitiveness has undermined economic and social citizenship rights, and this has, in Britain and the USA, engendered an assault upon the idea of the welfare state. Solidarity and social discipline will be severely tested if the welfare state is to remain economically and politically viable in a highly competitive modern world.
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Book Title: Can the Welfare State Compete?
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries
Editors: Alfred Pfaller, Ian Gough, Göran Therborn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10716-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Alfred Pfaller, Ian Gough and Göran Therborn 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-48755-6Published: 04 March 1991
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-10718-6Published: 01 January 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-10716-2Published: 05 March 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 354
Topics: Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Public Policy, Social Care, Political Science, Politics of the Welfare State