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State Responsiveness and State Activism: An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies that Explain the Rise in Social Expenditures in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1870–1968 book cover

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State Responsiveness and State Activism An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies that Explain the Rise in Social Expenditures in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1870–1968

By Jerald Hage, Robert Hanneman, Edward T. Gargan Copyright 1989
338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge
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State Responsiveness and State Activism (1989) provides a unique comparative account of some of the most fundamental social changes that have taken place in the western world and the role played in these changes by the state. It evaluates which models – economic, modernization, political mobilization, class conflict – best predict the growth in social welfare and in educational expenditures;... Read more

1. Theories of State Responsiveness and State Activism  2. The Methodological Problems of Comparative Macro Sociology  Part 1. The Growth of the Welfare State  3. Institutional Patterns in the Growth of Social Welfare  4. State Responsiveness to Social Needs and Political Pressures  5. State Involvement and Patterns of Growth in Welfare Expenditures  Part 2. The Growth of Mass Education Systems  6. Institutional Patterns in the Expansion of Education  7. State Responsiveness to Educational Demand and Political Pressures  8. State Involvement and Patterns of Growth in Educational Expenditures  Epilogue: A Theory of the State  9. A Theory of State Responsiveness and State Activism

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Jerald Hage, Robert Hanneman and Edward T. Gargan

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