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1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-231) and index. |
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What does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates about policy design as well as in discussions about the right political institutions for a country. It has frustrated many, with federalism seeming to matter in all sorts of combinations with all sorts of issues, from nationalism to racism to intergovernmental competition. The diffuse federalism literature has not come to compelling answers for very basic questions. Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin argue for a new approach--one methodologically focused on configurations of variables within cases rather than a fruitless attempt to isolate "the" effect of federalism; and one that is substantively engaged with identifying key elements in configurations as well as with when and how their interactions matter. Born out of their work on a multi-year, eleven-country project (published as Federalism and Social Policy: Patterns of Redistribution in Eleven Countries, University of Michigan Press, 2019), this book comprises a methodological and substantive agenda. Methodologically, the authors shift to studies that embraced and understood the complexity within which federal political institutions operate. Substantively, they make an argument for the importance of plurinationalism, changing economic interests, and institutional legacies. |
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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Description based on information from the publisher. |
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Federal government -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Welfare state -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Social policy -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Federal government. (OCoLC)fst00922333
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Social policy. (OCoLC)fst01122738
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Welfare state. (OCoLC)fst01173685
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst01423769
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| Added Author |
Béland, Daniel, author.
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Lecours, André, 1972- author.
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Dubin, Kenneth, author.
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Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9780472902927 open access |
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047290292X open access |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.12237580 doi |
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