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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007.
Full Description
Whilst the prevailing orthodoxy of the expenditure retrenchment literature
is that globalisation and neo-liberal ideas are leading to a downsizing of the state, empirical research - basing its conclusions on patterns of welfare state spending - does not support such a view. This book brings a new perspective to bear by looking at what has been happening to other areas of the state's activity.Edited by Francis G. Castles, a leading authority in the field, and bringing together an outstanding group of British, German and American scholars, it examines trends in non-social or 'core' spending on public administration, defence, public order, education, economic affairs and debt financing and in the regulatory ordering of the economic sphere. The book not only opens up new areas of comparative public policy research, >but also demonstrates clearly that there have been real reductions in the reach of state in some areas, although patterns of causation are more complex and varied than generally presumed by the retrenchment literature.
The research findings reported in The Disappearing State? provide pivotal, relevant and challenging core material for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in public and social policy, political economy and the sociology of the modern state.
Contents
Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
Francis G. Castles
2. Testing the Retrenchment Hypothesis: An Aggregate Overview
Francis G. Castles
3. Data on the Functions of Government: Where Are We Now?
Neil Fraser and Paul Norris
4. The Changing Cost of Government: Trends in the State Overhead Budget
Richard Parry
5. Sinking Budgets and Ballooning Prices: Recent Developments Connected to Military Spending
Thomas R. Cusack
6. Expenditure on Public Order and Safety
Paul Norris
7. Testing the Retrenchment Hypothesis: Educational Spending, 1960-2002
Manfred G. Schmidt
8. The Real Race to the Bottom: What Happened to Economic Affairs Expenditure After 1980?
Herbert Obinger and Reimut Zohlnhöfer
9. A Mortgage on the Future? Public Debt Expenditure and Its Determinants, 1980-2001
Uwe Wagschal
10. Moving Beyond Expenditure Accounts: The Changing Contours of the Regulatory State, 1980-2003
Nico A. Siegel
Index
