64 records matched your query       

Title:

Federalism and the welfare state : new world and European experiences / edited by Herbert Obinger, Stephan Leibfried, and Francis G. Castles.

Publisher:

Cambridge Univeristy Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xvi, 363 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Social policy--Case studies.--Case studies.
Federal government--Case studies.--Case studies.
Democracy--Case studies.--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Obinger, Herbert, 1970-
Leibfried, Stephan, 1944-
Castles, Francis G. (Francis Geoffrey), 1943-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Federalism and the welfare state / Herbert Obinger, Francis G. Castles and Stephan Leibfried -- Australia : federal constraints and institutional innovations / Francis G. Castles and John Uhr -- Canada : nation-building in a federal welfare state / Keith Banting -- The United States : federalism and its counter-factuals / Kenneth Finegold -- Austria : strong parties in a weak federal polity / Herbert Obinger -- Germany : co-operative federalism and the overgrazing of the fiscal commons / Philip Manow -- Switzerland : the marriage of direct democracy and federalism / Herbert Obinger ... [et al.] -- 'Old' and 'new politics' in federal welfare states / Stephan Leibfried, Francis G. Castles and Herbert Obinger.

ISBN:

9780521611848
0521611849 (pbk.)
9780521847384
0521847389 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56032653

LCCN:

2004051187

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)