Making Markets in the Welfare State: The Politics of Varying Market Reforms

by Jane R. Gingrich

Book Overview

Over the past three decades, market reforms have transformed public services such as education, health and care of the elderly. Whereas previous studies present markets as having similar and largely non-political effects, this book shows that political parties structure markets in diverse ways to achieve distinct political aims. Left-wing attempts to sustain the legitimacy of the welfare state are compared with right-wing wishes to limit the state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107695570
• ISBN13: 9781107695573
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"