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Book Synopsis Political Parties, Games and Redistribution by : Rosa Mulé
Download or read book Political Parties, Games and Redistribution written by Rosa Mulé and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the impact of party politics on income redistribution policy in liberal democracies.
Book Synopsis Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics by : Keith Banting
Download or read book Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics written by Keith Banting and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All advanced democracies have faced the pressures of globalization, technological change, and new family forms, which have generated higher levels of inequality in market incomes. But countries have responded differently, reflecting differences in their domestic politics. The politics of who gets what and why is at the core of this volume, the first to examine this question in an explicitly Canadian context. In Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics, leading political scientists, sociologists, and economists point to the failure of public policy to contain surging income inequality. Government programs are no longer offsetting the growth in inequality generated by the market, and Canadian society has become more unequal. The redistributive state is fading due to powerful forces that have reshaped the politics of social policy, including global economic pressures, ideological change, shifts in the influence of business and labour, changes in the party system, and the decline of equality-seeking civil society organizations. This volume demonstrates conclusively that action and inaction -- policy change and policy drift -- are at the heart of growing inequality, calling into question Canada’s record as a kinder, gentler nation.
Book Synopsis Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society by : David Laycock
Download or read book Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society written by David Laycock and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism, conservatism, populism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, agrarianism, labour pragmatism, socialism, and myriad other isms. Ideology is a ubiquitous, continuously innovating dimension of human experience, but its character and impact are notoriously difficult to pinpoint within political and social life. Political Ideology in Parties, Policy, and Civil Society demonstrates that the reach and significance of political ideology is best understood through a multidisciplinary approach. Contributors to this volume explore a broad territory from multiple perspectives: the influence of English country party ideology on late-eighteenth-century American political thought; multiculturalism, populism, and environmentalism in Canada; the ideological underpinnings of Canadian development assistance policy; contemporary efforts to shape working-class and farmer ideologies in western Canada; and the interweaving of academic theory and ideology in game theory. This stimulating volume offers empirical interpretations that break new ground, and demonstrates the strength of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of political ideology.
Book Synopsis Inequality After the Transition by : Ekrem Karakoç
Download or read book Inequality After the Transition written by Ekrem Karakoç and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Transition is an all-encompassing examination of the origins, increase, and persistence of inequality in new democracies. It challenges the conventional thinking found in much of the democratization-inequality literature, and offers a new theory. It speaks simultaneously to literature of democratization, party systems, social policy, and inequality to explain why democracies are not able to fulfill their promise to the disadvantaged and why they cannot achieve income equality. It investigates social policy programs such as pensions, unemployment benefits, and other social transfers in Poland and the Czech Republic in Post-Communist Europe, and Turkey and Spain in Southern Europe. The volume traces the origins and development of social policy, from the formation of nation-states to the present, and considers how different political regimes, whether totalitarian; post-totalitarian; or authoritarian, designed welfare policies to prioritize civil servants and the working classes in formal sectors at the expense of the majority poor. It then demonstrates how these legacies perpetuate and widen disparities in access to welfare policies, and thus income inequality in countries where low mobilization by the poor and unstable party systems prevail. This study employs interviews with Polish, Czech, Turkish, and Spanish union leaders; bureaucrats; and business people while also conducting an original survey in Turkey to dissect the linkage between organized groups and parties. Employing a multi-method approach, two paired case studies on these countries also demystify why and how new populist parties have successfully appealed to voters and affected the trajectory of social policy, party systems and inequality. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.
Book Synopsis Bibliographie Internationale de Science Politique by :
Download or read book Bibliographie Internationale de Science Politique written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.
Book Synopsis In the Name of Social Democracy by : Gerassimos Moschonas
Download or read book In the Name of Social Democracy written by Gerassimos Moschonas and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siècle elections. Today, parties descended from the Second International hold office throughout the European Union, while the Right appears widely disorientated by the dramatic “modernisation” of a political tradition dating back to the nineteenth century. The focal point of Gerassimos Moschonas’s study is the emergent “new social democracy” of the twenty-first century. As Moschonas demonstrates, change has been a constant of social-democratic history: the core dominant reformist tendency of working-class politic notwithstanding, capitalism has transformed social democracy more than it has succeeded in transforming capitalism. Now, in the “great transformation” of recent years, a process of “de-social-democratization” has been set in train, affecting every aspect of the social-democratic phenomenon, from ideology and programs to organization and electorates. Analytically incisive and empirically meticulous, In the Name of Social Democracy will establish itself as the standard reference work on the logic and dynamics of a major mutation in European politics.
Book Synopsis Factional Politics by : Françoise Boucek
Download or read book Factional Politics written by Françoise Boucek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on theories of neo-institutionalism to show how institutions shape dissident behaviour, Boucek develops new ways of measuring factionalism and explains its effects on office tenure. In each of the four cases - from Britain, Canada, Italy and Japan - intra-party dynamics are analyzed through times series and rational choice tools.
Book Synopsis Political Democracy, Trust, and Social Justice by : Charles F. Andrain
Download or read book Political Democracy, Trust, and Social Justice written by Charles F. Andrain and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous explanation of connections among confidence in government institutions, popular support for democracy, and social justice in societies around the world.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship by : Ivar Jonsson
Download or read book The Political Economy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by Ivar Jonsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a general theoretical framework for approaching innovation and entrepreneurship, using practical and up-to-date examples to demonstrate three different levels of innovation and entrepreneurship: the macro-level, which concerns the impact of innovation activity on economic growth and production systems; the meso-level, which concerns the relations between firms, research institutes and governmental bodies and their role in innovation activity; and the micro-level, which concerns the dynamics of innovations within firms and organisations. Providing a critical overview of existing research and demonstrating the importance of a transdisciplinary framework for studies of innovation and entrepreneurship, the author advances a general concept of ’collective entrepreneurship’ that emphasises the social and collaborative nature of innovation and entrepreneurship, thus shedding light on processes of innovation and entrepreneurship as active practices of social construction. As such, it will appeal to scholars of economic sociology, political science, economic geography and economists, as well as those with interests in innovation policy.
Book Synopsis Pension Reform in Europe by : Camila Arza
Download or read book Pension Reform in Europe written by Camila Arza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : the political economy of pension reform / by Camila Arza and Martin Kohli -- The "new politics" of pension reforms in Continental Europe / by David Natali and Martin Rhodes -- Between conflict and consensus : The reform of Bismarckian pension regimes / by Martin Schludi -- How do politicians get away with path-breaking pension reforms? : the political psychology of pension reform in democracies / by Einar Overbye -- The politics and outcomes of three-pillar pension reforms in Central and Eastern Europe / by Katharina Muller -- Changing European welfare : A new distribution pattern of pension policy? / by Camila Arza -- The interdependence of the system of solidarity and the system of equivalence / by Martin Rein and Karen Anderson -- The Anglo-American pension regime : failures of the divided welfare state / by Robin Blackburn -- The gender pension gap : effects of norms and reform policies / by Patricia Frericks and Robert Maier -- Generational equity : concepts and attitudes / by Martin Kohli.
Book Synopsis Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists by : Despina Alexiadou
Download or read book Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists written by Despina Alexiadou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past thirty years scholars have debated the role of political parties in fiscal, monetary, and social welfare policies. Some argue that Social Democratic parties are more committed to advancing and maintaining welfare protection, while others claim that party ideology has ceased to explain parties' policy choices due to the constraining forces of economic globalization, deindustrialization, and electoral volatility. Indeed, the empirical findings in support of partisan arguments are mixed. Much of this rich literature treats political parties as uniform and cohesive entities when it comes to forming government policy. Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists challenges this assumption and advances the argument that ideology and partisan policy preferences play a major role in policy choices, yet they are not necessarily observable at the government or even at the party level. Instead, we often need to look at the individual level — particularly at the cabinet minister who is in charge of the policy in question to predict policy outcomes. Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists innovatively argues that cabinet ministers can have very important policy role as policy agenda setters. Yet, not all ministers are equally effective policy-makers. Some make a difference, while others do not. Loyalists are loyal to their party leader and prioritize office over policy; partisans are party heavyweights and aspiring leaders; and ideologues have fixed policy ideas and are unwilling to compromise for the perks of holding office. Only ideologues and partisans can effectively change social welfare and labour market policy, above and beyond what their government mandates.
Book Synopsis Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe by : Igor Guardiancich
Download or read book Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe written by Igor Guardiancich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces and analyzes the legislation and implementation of pension reforms in four Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. By comparing the political economy of their policymaking processes, it seeks to pinpoint regularities between institutional settings, actor constellations, decision-making strategies and reform. Guardiancich employs a historical institutionalist framework to analyze the policies, actors and institutions that characterized the period between the collapse of socialism and the global financial crisis of 2008-2011. He argues that viable pension reforms should not be seen simply as an event, but rather as a continuing process that must be fiscally, socially and politically sustainable. In particular, the primary goal of a pension scheme is to reduce poverty, provide adequate retirement income and insure against the risks of old age within given fiscal constraints, and this will happen only if the scheme enjoys continuing political support at all levels. To this end the author individuates those institutional characteristics of countries that increase the consistency of reforms and lower the likelihood of policy reversals in time. Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, political economy, social policy and economics.
Download or read book British Politics written by Peter John and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Politics provides a cutting-edge, analytical introduction to the subject, encouraging students to think about methods and theory, whilst building a fundamental understanding of the current debates shaping British politics and public policy.
Book Synopsis Understanding State Welfare by : Brian Lund
Download or read book Understanding State Welfare written by Brian Lund and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and original text combines a systematic examination of the theories of welfare with an historical account of the evolution of the welfare state and its impact in promoting social justice. It identifies the principles governing social distribution and examines the rationales for these different distributive principles. This book also links the theories of distribution to the actual development of social policy and considers their outcomes. Understanding State Welfare will be essential reading for students of social policy. It provides a clear understanding of both theories of welfare and the history of the development of the British welfare state.
Book Synopsis The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems by : Martin Schludi
Download or read book The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems written by Martin Schludi and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an analysis of the political process involved in the reform of the pension systems in European countries.
Download or read book Governing America written by Robert Singh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at undergraduate students of US government and politics, this volume offers an accessible and comprehensive examination of American politics both before and after September 11.
Book Synopsis Radical Welfare State Retrenchment by : P. Starke
Download or read book Radical Welfare State Retrenchment written by P. Starke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book confronts one of the most fiercely contested issues in current political debates: how is welfare state retrenchment possible in modern democracies despite the welfare state's continuing popular appeal? Starke offers an international comparative analysis of welfare state retrenchment and an in-depth examination of its radical deployments.
