1st Edition
Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization How Economic Worldviews Shape Social Policy Choices in Times of Crisis
By Alexander Horn
Copyright 2017
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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From the 1980s on, a privatization of labor market-related risks has occurred in the OECD. Governments have cut the generosity of social programs and tightened eligibility rules, particularly for the unemployed. Government Ideology, Economic Pressure, and Risk Privatization: How Economic Worldviews Shape Social Policy Choices in Times of Crisis analyses these curtailments for eighteen countries... Read more
1. Risk Privatization, Economic Crisis, and the Primacy of Politics 2. Much Ado about Nothing? Retrenchment versus Resilience, 3. Theoretical and Analytical Framework: What We (Do Not) Know, 4. Theoretical and Analytical Framework: Taking Ideology Seriously, 5. The End of Ideology? Government Ideology over Time, 6. The Ideological Complexion of Government and Retrenchment, 7. Ideology Still Matters: Findings, Limitations, and Implications, 8. References, 9. Annex
Biography
Alexander Horn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Government at Aarhus University. Previously, he took part in the PhD programs of the Berlin Graduate School and Duke University and defended his dissertation at Humboldt University Berlin. He has published in the European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Social Policy, and Social Science History.
