The Disappearing State? (inbunden)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
296
Utgivningsdatum
2007-04-01
Förlag
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Medarbetare
Wagschal, U. (contributions)/Castles, F.G. (contributions)/Cusack, T.R. (contributions)/Fraser, N. (contributions)/Norris, P. (contributions)/Obinger, H. (contributions)/Parry, R. (contributions)/Schmidt, M.G. (contributions)/Siegel, N.A. (contributions)/Wagschal, U. (contributions)/Castles, F.G. (c
Illustrationer
Illustrations
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 27 mm
Vikt
580 g
ISBN
9781845422974

The Disappearing State?

Retrenchment Realities in an Age of Globalisation

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Whilst the prevailing orthodoxy of the expenditure retrenchment literature is that globalisation and neo-liberal ideas are leading to a downsizing of the state, empirical research - basing its conclusions on patterns of welfare state spending - does not support such a view. This book brings a new perspective to bear by looking at what has been happening to other areas of the state's activity.Edited by Francis G. Castles, a leading authority in the field, and bringing together an outstanding group of British, German and American scholars, it examines trends in non-social or 'core' spending on public administration, defence, public order, education, economic affairs and debt financing and in the regulatory ordering of the economic sphere. The book not only opens up new areas of comparative public policy research, >but also demonstrates clearly that there have been real reductions in the reach of state in some areas, although patterns of causation are more complex and varied than generally presumed by the retrenchment literature. The research findings reported in The Disappearing State? provide pivotal, relevant and challenging core material for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in public and social policy, political economy and the sociology of the modern state.
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'Most comparative research on public expenditure retrenchment has concentrated on the welfare state. This exciting and innovative volume takes a new approach. It focuses instead on non-social programmes such as education, defence and economic affairs, demonstrates that this is where the real cost-cutting has taken place and shows, paradoxically, that these cuts have made social spending more politically salient in the public expenditure calculus. This is a book which extends the reach of our understanding of modern public policy at the same time as it extends our knowledge of the reach of the modern state.' -- Stephan Leibfried, University of Bremen, Germany 'In this volume, Frank Castles and his team of experts continue the myth-busting process begun in Castles's 2004 analysis of welfare state crisis. Their combination of statistical sophistication and theoretical reflection on the political economy of public expenditure slices straight through the myriad misplaced assumptions regarding the decline of the state, globalization, "races to the bottom" and welfare retrenchment. This book makes compulsory reading for all social scientists.' -- Martin Rhodes, University of Denver, US 'I like simple sentences, cross-country collaborations, great graphs, and compelling conclusions. Here, remarkably, we have a book with all four. This is vibrant writing on a topic - the long reach of state spending - that figures in everyone's lives. It is hard to know whether the book will be more gripping for the Prime Minister or for high-brow professors of economics and political science.' -- Andrew Oswald, University of Warwick, UK

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Edited by Francis G. Castles, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Australian National University. He was formerly Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK

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Contents: Preface 1. Introduction Francis G. Castles 2. Testing the Retrenchment Hypothesis: An Aggregate Overview Francis G. Castles 3. Data on the Functions of Government: Where Are We Now? Neil Fraser and Paul Norris 4. The Changing Cost of Government: Trends in the State Overhead Budget Richard Parry 5. Sinking Budgets and Ballooning Prices: Recent Developments Connected to Military Spending Thomas R. Cusack 6. Expenditure on Public Order and Safety Paul Norris 7. Testing the Retrenchment Hypothesis: Educational Spending, 19602002 Manfred G. Schmidt 8. The Real Race to the Bottom: What Happened to Economic Affairs Expenditure After 1980? Herbert Obinger and Reimut Zohlnhfer 9. A Mortgage on the Future? Public Debt Expenditure and Its Determinants, 19802001 Uwe Wagschal 10. Moving Beyond Expenditure Accounts: The Changing Contours of the Regulatory State, 19802003 Nico A. Siegel Index