More Shopping OptionsThe modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing international competition for capital and labor are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competiting pressures and offers a coherent analyses of both institutional resilience and institutional change. Adopting an evolutionary approach, this innovative volume demonstrates both how past practices and policies significantly affect the current options and how social and economic forces impinge upon each of these societies in surprisingly different ways. Cross-national in scope and unified in approach, Restructuring the Welfare State examines core issues facing the contemporary welfare state while at the same time significantly advancing historical institutionalist theory.
Bo Rothstein is August Röhss Chair in Political Science at the University of Göteborg, Sweden.
Sven Steinmo is Professor in Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
"This is a rare combination of a coherent theoretical approach and important empirical evidence. Rothstein, Steinmo and their colleagues give a significant contribution to our understanding of the institutional dynamics of the welfare state." -- Johan P. Olsen, ARENA programme, Oslo
Restructuring Politics: Institutional Analysis and the Challenges of Modern Welfare States--Bo Rothstein & Sven Steinmo * Institutions - Experiences - Preferences: How Welfare State Design Affects Political Trust and Ideology--Staffan Kumlin * Is America Becoming More Exceptional?: How Public Policy Corporatized Social Citizenship--Frank Dobbin * Privatization, Devolution and the Welfare State: Rethinking the Prevailing Wisdom--Steven Rathgeb-Smith * Political Institutions and the Politics of Race in the Development of the Modern Welfare State--Robert C. Liebermann * Including Foreigners in National Welfare States: Institutional Venues and Rules of the Game--Virginie Guirandon * Negotiating Welfare Reform: Actors and Institutions in the Japanese Welfare State--Margarita Estevez-Abe * Political Trust and Support for the Welfare State: Unpacking a Supposed Relationship--Stefan Svallfors * The Universal Welfare State as a Social Dilemma--Bo Rothstein
