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Can the Welfare State Compete?

A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Alfred Pfaller

    1. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn, Germany

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  2. Ian Gough

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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  3. Göran Therborn

    1. Göteborg University, Sweden

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Issue

    • Alfred Pfaller, Ian Gough, Göran Therborn
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Competitiveness of Industrialised Welfare States: A Cross-country Survey

    • Alfred Pfaller, Ian Gough
    Pages 15-43

  4. The United States

    • Alfred Pfaller
    Pages 45-99

  5. The United Kingdom

    • Ian Gough
    Pages 101-151

  6. France

    • Xavier Greffe
    Pages 153-186

  7. The Federal Republic of Germany

    • Michael Krüger, Alfred Pfaller
    Pages 187-228

  8. Sweden

    • Göran Therborn
    Pages 229-269

  9. Welfare Statism and International Competition: The Lesson of the Case Studies

    • Alfred Pfaller, Ian Gough, Göran Therborn
    Pages 271-297

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 299-354
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The authors examine how the USA, Great Britain, France, Sweden and Germany have responded to the increasing challenge of international competition since the mid-1970s. Apart from in Sweden, the pursuit of competitiveness has undermined economic and social citizenship rights, and this has, in Britain and the USA, engendered an assault upon the idea of the welfare state. Solidarity and social discipline will be severely tested if the welfare state is to remain economically and politically viable in a highly competitive modern world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn, Germany

    Alfred Pfaller

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Ian Gough

  • Göteborg University, Sweden

    Göran Therborn

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