Titlebook: Radical Welfare State Retrenchment; A Comparative Analys Peter Starke Book 2008 Peter Starke 2008 politics.restructuring.state

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Introduction: An Empirical Puzzlentle it. Over the last 15 years or so, a large body of literature has emerged which spells out the theoretical reasons why this should be the case. Despite that, across the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), welfare state retrenchment, even radical retrenchment, has taken

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Preliminaries: Measurement, Theories and Strategy of Comparisone on which they focus. What is called the ‘dependent variable problem’ in comparative welfare state analysis (Green-Pedersen 2004; see also Kuhner 2007) refers to a number of issues relating to the conceptualization, operationalization and measurement of the phenomenon under investigation. The chall

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Radical Retrenchment and Restructuringf Prime Minister Jim Bolger on 19 December 1990, when he presented what came to be seen as perhaps the most drastic example of welfare state retrenchment not just in New Zealand but the OECD as a whole. The move came largely unexpected. Although the National Party had been shifting to the right afte

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Retrenchment in New Zealand: Empirical Pattern, Causes and Consequencesdiscern a distinct pattern. The relevant events are listed in Table 6.1, grouped according to the partisan complexion of government. The table also contains a limited number of reversals (in squared brackets).

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Putting an Extreme Case in Perspective: Retrenchment Across Countries. The countries to be studied were selected according to a ‘diverse cases’ design in order to cover a sufficiently wide range of different institutional and political variation. Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom have also been chosen since there already exists a large body of literature on welf

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Explaining the Cross-National Pattern retrenchment, that is, New Zealand, can be applied to a limited number of ‘diverse cases’ covering a considerable variation of welfare state structures and political-institutional arrangements in the OECD-world. Our concluding discussion is divided into an analysis of the main similarities and diff

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Preliminaries: Measurement, Theories and Strategy of Comparison7) refers to a number of issues relating to the conceptualization, operationalization and measurement of the phenomenon under investigation. The challenge is to delineate what retrenchment is and what it is not.