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State responsiveness and state activism : an examination of the social forces and state strategies that explain the rise in social expenditures in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, 1870-1968
- Title
- State responsiveness and state activism : an examination of the social forces and state strategies that explain the rise in social expenditures in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, 1870-1968 / Jerald Hage, Robert Hanneman, Edward T. Gargan.
- Author
- Hage, Jerald, 1932-
- Publication
- London ; Boston : U. Hyman, 1989.
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- Description
- xvii, 319 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- A comparative study of the political economy of public welfare, an analysis of the social forces over the course of a century that have led to the adoption of widely differing social welfare systems, and what these processes indicate about the nature of the state.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 285-304.
- Contents
- Theories of state responsiveness and state activism; the methodological problems of comparative macro sociology. Part 1 The growth of the welfare state: institutional patterns in the growth of social welfare; state responsiveness to social needs and political pressures; state involvement and patterns of growth in welfare expenditures. Part 2 The growth of mass education systems: institutional patterns in the expansion of education; state responsiveness to educational demand and political pressures; state involvement and patterns of growth in educational expenditures; state responsiveness and state activism.
- ISBN
- 0044450435
- 9780044450436
- 0004450435 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 88015080
- OCLC
- ocm17954361
- 17954361
- SCSB-8977786
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library