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Welfare State Change in Leading OECD Countries

The Influence of Post-Industrial and Global Economic Developments

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  1. Ingmar J. Schustereder
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 1-7

  3. The Welfare State and Welfare Capitalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Theoretical Foundations of the Welfare State

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 11-24

    3. Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: Interlinking Welfare State and Production Regimes

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 25-37

  4. Historical Development and Contemporary Challenges of the Advanced Capitalist Welfare State

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      Pages 39-39
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    2. Historical Phases of Welfare State Development

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 41-48

    3. Post-Industrial Challenges of the Contemporary Capitalist Welfare State

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 49-69

    4. Economic Globalization and the Contemporary Capitalist Welfare State

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 71-103

  5. Empirical Analyses of the Driving Forces Behind the Contemporary Capitalist Welfare State

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      Pages 105-105
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    2. Methodological Issues in Comparative Welfare Capitalism Research

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 107-110

    3. A Quantitative Study on the Determinants of Welfare Spending

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 111-149

    4. A Qualitative Study on the Recent Development Process of Advanced Capitalist Welfare States

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 151-175

    5. Summarized Findings and Conclusion

      • Ingmar J. Schustereder
      Pages 177-179

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 181-222
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1. 1 Research Scope Ever since the introduction of social insurance legislation beginning in the last th decades of the 19 century, social scientists have been interested in analyzing the causal forces behind the development of the modern welfare state. Precisely, for most of the period the academic debate has hereby mainly centered on the following qu- tions: Why was the welfare state founded in the first place? And which factors have 1 contributed to its rapid expansion in the aftermath of World War Two (WWII)? With the advanced capitalist welfare states beginning to face increasing ch- lenges from the mid-1970s onwards, academic research has recently shifted from providing explanations on the rise of the welfare state to understanding processes of welfare state adaptation. In general, advanced capitalist welfare states confront today two types of challenges: on the one hand, pressures from post-industrial devel- ments, and on the other hand, pressures from global economic forces (see Buti, Franco, and Pench, 1998, pp. 17-26). Following Pierson (2001a), the most severe “post-industrial pressures” (p. 80) involve ongoing processes of deindustrialization, population ageing, changing household structures, and welfare state maturation (pp. 82-83). Apart from these domestic challenges, advanced capitalist welfare states have recently also been affected by developments occurring in the global sphere. While processes of international economic integration had already resumed in the imme- ate aftermath of WWII, they have significantly intensified during the last four decades.

About the author

Dr. Ingmar J. Schustereder earned his doctoral degree from the European Business School under Prof. Dr. Joachim Ahrens’ supervision. He lives in Vienna and works for an international management consultancy.

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