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Alexander Horn
Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization
How Economic Worldviews Shape Social Policy Choices in Times of Crisis
For nearly forty years now, governments in rich democracies have been shifting labour market risks from the state and employers to employees, cutting the generosity of social programmes even as they have tightened restrictions on eligibility. This book analyses those changes in eighteen countries and shows that the most important factor in explaining whether cuts are made is the economic world view of a particular government. While the economic pressures that are typically pointed to as the causes of these reforms do exist, Alexander Horn shows that they are nonetheless secondary to ideology.
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Auteur
Alexander Horn
Alexander Horn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Government at Aarhus University. Previously, he took part in the PhD programs of the Berlin Graduate School and Duke University and defended his dissertation at Humboldt University Berlin. He has published in the European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Social Policy, and Social Science History.
- Titel
- Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization
- Subtitel
- How Economic Worldviews Shape Social Policy Choices in Times of Crisis
- Auteur
- Alexander Horn
- Prijs
- € 133,99
- ISBN
- 9789048529384
- Uitvoering
- eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
- Aantal pagina's
- 300
- Publicatiedatum
- 13 - 07 - 2017
- Afmetingen
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Serie
- Changing Welfare States
- Categorie
- Politics and Government
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
- Voorbeeld
- Download introductie en inhoudsopgave
- Ook beschikbaar als
- Hardback - € 134,00
Recensies
"This book has to be hailed for presenting a thorough analysis full of theoretical and methodological details in a vivid way, which altogether makes for a good read. The book is not only an essential contribution to the debate on partisanship and welfare state retrenchment but provides fresh impulses for future research, thus being a must-read for researchers interested in the partisan politics of the welfare state." - Frank Bandau, *Journal of Social Policy*, January 2019
"[*Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization* is a] meticulous and sophisticated statistical analysis of eighteen OECD countries over the last forty years [...] The discussion and critiques of different theoretical traditions and methodological approaches is excellent. The suggestions for conceptualizing and improving the measurement of party ideologies is especially useful. For these reasons alone, it is worth reading." - John L. Campbell, *Contemporary Sociology* 47, 2018
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