Government ideology, economic pressure, and risk privatization : how economic worldviews shape social policy choices in times of crisis /

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Author / Creator:	Horn, Alexander (Professor of political science), author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Changing welfare states Changing welfare states.
Subject:	Ideology -- OECD countries. Government spending policy -- OECD countries. Economic policy. Government spending policy. Ideology. Social policy. OECD countries -- Social policy. OECD countries -- Economic policy. OECD countries. Academic theses. Academic theses.
Format:	E-Resource Dissertations Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11761022

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Varying Form of Title:	How economic worldviews shape social policy choices in times of crisis
ISBN:	9789048529384 9048529387 9789462980204 9462980209
Notes:	"Doctoral thesis written at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 11, 2018).
Summary:	For nearly forty years now, governments in rich democracies have been shifting labor market risks from the state and employers to employees, cutting the generosity of social programs even as they tightened restrictions on eligibility. This book analyzes those changes in eighteen countries and shows that the most important factor in explaining whether cuts are made is the economic worldview of a particular government. While the economic pressures that are typically pointed to as the causes of these reforms do exist, Alexander Horn shows that they are nonetheless secondary to ideology.

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