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This book looks at the public policy profiles of eight advanced capitalist states and asks what makes them distinctive. The volume also examines national policies comparatively by exploring the extent to which each nation fits into patterns established in cross-national literature.

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Introduction - puzzles of political economy, Francis, G. Castles; social protection by other means - Australia's strategy of coping with external vulnerability, Francis G.Castles; learning from catastrophes - West Germany's public policy, Manfred G.Schmidt; the comparative history of public policy in Israel, Michael Shalev; "pillarization" and "popular movements". two variants of welfare state capitalism - the Netherlands and Sweden, Goran Therborn; Japan's creative conservatism - continuity under challenge, T.J.Pempel; the United Kingdom - paradoxes of an underground statism, Patrick Dunleavy; taking exception - explaining the distinctiveness of American public policies in the past century, Edwin Amenta and Theda Skocpol.

The Comparative History of the Public Policy

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/07/1989
      ISBN13: 9780745605180, 978-0745605180
      ISBN10: 0745605184
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book looks at the public policy profiles of eight advanced capitalist states and asks what makes them distinctive. The volume also examines national policies comparatively by exploring the extent to which each nation fits into patterns established in cross-national literature.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - puzzles of political economy, Francis, G. Castles; social protection by other means - Australia's strategy of coping with external vulnerability, Francis G.Castles; learning from catastrophes - West Germany's public policy, Manfred G.Schmidt; the comparative history of public policy in Israel, Michael Shalev; "pillarization" and "popular movements". two variants of welfare state capitalism - the Netherlands and Sweden, Goran Therborn; Japan's creative conservatism - continuity under challenge, T.J.Pempel; the United Kingdom - paradoxes of an underground statism, Patrick Dunleavy; taking exception - explaining the distinctiveness of American public policies in the past century, Edwin Amenta and Theda Skocpol.

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