Can the Welfare State Compete?: A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries

Gough, Ian; Pfaller, Alfred; Therborn, Goran

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1991-03-04

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333487556

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10716-2

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 354