State Transformations in OECD Countries: Dimensions, Driving Forces, and Trajectories
Heinz Rothgang
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The democratic nation state of the post-war era has undergone major transformations since the 1970s, and political authority has been both internationalized and privatized. The thirteen chapters of this edited collection deal with major transformations of governance arrangements and state responsibilities in the countries of the OECD world. A unified conceptual and explanatory framework is used to describe trajectories of state change, to explain the internationalization or privatization of responsibilities in the resource, law, legitimacy and welfare dimensions of the democratic nation state, and to probe the state's role in the today's post-national constellation of political authority. As the contributions ... Read more
The democratic nation state of the post-war era has undergone major transformations since the 1970s, and political authority has been both internationalized and privatized. The thirteen chapters of this edited collection deal with major transformations of governance arrangements and state responsibilities in the countries of the OECD world. A unified conceptual and explanatory framework is used to describe trajectories of state change, to explain the internationalization or privatization of responsibilities in the resource, law, legitimacy and welfare dimensions of the democratic nation state, and to probe the state's role in the today's post-national constellation of political authority. As the contributions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Transformations of the State
Condition
New
Number of Pages
317
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137012418
SKU
V9781137012418
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99-15
About Heinz Rothgang
Michael Blauberger, University of Salzburg, Austria Michael Brüggemann, University of Zurich, Switzerland Mirella Cacace, University of Bremen, Germany Gralf-Peter Calliess, University of Bremen, Germany Lorraine Frisina Doetter, University of Bremen, Germany Karin Gottschall, University of Bremen, Germany Ralf Götze, University of Bremen, Germany Sebastian Haunss, University of Bremen, Germany Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Germany Hermann B. Hoffmann, CMS Hasche ... Read more
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