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The OECD and European welfare states / edited by Klaus Armingeon and Michelle Beyeler.

Contributor(s): Armingeon, K. (Klaus) | Beyeler, Michelle, 1974-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Globalization and welfare.Publisher: Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2004Description: xi, 253 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1843763214.Subject(s): Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | Welfare state -- Europe | Public welfare -- Europe | Europe -- Social policyDDC classification: 361.65094
Contents:
A comparative study of the OECD and European welfare states -- Multilateral surveillance and the OECD: playing the idea game -- The OECD as a scientific authority? The OECD's influence on Danish welfare polities -- Finland: considering OECD guidelines but within national institutional settings -- Norway: an amenable member of the OECD -- International organisations and welfare states at odds? The case of Sweden -- Belgium: increasing critique by the OECD -- France: moving reluctantly in the OECD's direction -- The Netherlands: how OECD ideas are slowly creeping in -- Too many rivals? The OECD's influence on German welfare policies -- Little contention: Switzerland and the OECD -- OECD views on Greek welfare: not European enough -- Italy's adaption under external pressures: whose influence? -- The OECD and the reformulation of Spanish social policy: a combined search for expansion and rationalisation -- Mutual admiration? OECD advice to the UK -- Ireland: disinterested commentary, but how effective? -- OECD and national welfare state development
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The OECD includes the richest nations in the world. It issues recommendations on economic and social policies. Is its counsel on welfare state policies coherent? And is it followed by member states in Western Europe? These are the guiding questions of this book, which is a first to deal with such issues.

The OECD and European Welfare States comprises 14 country studies considering OECD recommendations and their implementation in Western European welfare states, an analysis of the internal processes in the OECD, a theoretical introduction and a concluding comparative chapter. The overall results show a large degree of consistency in OECD analyses and recommendations, though little efficacy is revealed. The authors of this book have compiled a major contribution to the analysis of the impact of international organisations on national welfare states, widening the scope of traditional analyses of national welfare state development.

This edited book will be of special interest to those researchers and graduate students in the fields of international business, welfare state policy and comparative politics. It will also appeal to policy makers concerned with the OECD or welfare state development.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A comparative study of the OECD and European welfare states -- Multilateral surveillance and the OECD: playing the idea game -- The OECD as a scientific authority? The OECD's influence on Danish welfare polities -- Finland: considering OECD guidelines but within national institutional settings -- Norway: an amenable member of the OECD -- International organisations and welfare states at odds? The case of Sweden -- Belgium: increasing critique by the OECD -- France: moving reluctantly in the OECD's direction -- The Netherlands: how OECD ideas are slowly creeping in -- Too many rivals? The OECD's influence on German welfare policies -- Little contention: Switzerland and the OECD -- OECD views on Greek welfare: not European enough -- Italy's adaption under external pressures: whose influence? -- The OECD and the reformulation of Spanish social policy: a combined search for expansion and rationalisation -- Mutual admiration? OECD advice to the UK -- Ireland: disinterested commentary, but how effective? -- OECD and national welfare state development

CIT Module POLA 8001 - Core reading

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Contributors (p. vii)
  • Abbreviations (p. ix)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xi)
  • 1. Introduction: a comparative study of the OECD and European welfare states (p. 1)
  • 2. Multilateral surveillance and the OECD: playing the idea game (p. 13)
  • 3. The OECD as a scientific authority? The OECD's influence on Danish welfare policies (p. 32)
  • 4. Finland: considering OECD guidelines but within national institutional settings (p. 44)
  • 5. Norway: an amenable member of the OECD (p. 60)
  • 6. International organisations and welfare states at odds? The case of Sweden (p. 75)
  • 7. Belgium: increasing critique by the OECD (p. 89)
  • 8. France: moving reluctantly in the OECD's direction (p. 101)
  • 9. The Netherlands: how OECD ideas are slowly creeping in (p. 113)
  • 10. Too many rivals? The OECD's influence on German welfare policies (p. 126)
  • 11. Little contention: Switzerland and the OECD (p. 139)
  • 12. OECD views on Greek welfare: not European enough (p. 153)
  • 13. Italy's adaptation under external pressures: whose influence? (p. 169)
  • 14. The OECD and the reformulation of Spanish social policy: a combined search for expansion and rationalisation (p. 183)
  • 15. Mutual admiration? OECD advice to the UK (p. 197)
  • 16. Ireland: disinterested commentary, but how effective? (p. 211)
  • 17. OECD and national welfare state development (p. 226)
  • Index (p. 243)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Edited by Klaus Armingeon, Chair of Political Science and Director, Institute of Political Science, University of Berne, Switzerland and Michelle Beyeler, University of Bern, Switzerland

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