The State at Work, Volume 1

Edited by Hans-Ulrich Derlien and B. Guy Peters

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Abstract: Representing the most extensive research on public employment, this volume explores the radical changes that have taken place in the configuration of national public services due to a general expansion of public employment that was followed by stagnation and decreases. Part-time employment and the involvement of women also increased as a component of the public sector and were linked to the most important growth areas such as the educational, health care and personal social services sectors. The two volumes that make up this study shed important insight on these changes.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781843765165
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: The State at Work

Hans-Ulrich Derlien and B. Guy Peters

Ch 2 Public Employment in Britain: From Working in to Working

Brian W. Hogwood

Ch 3 Breaking Sharply with the Past: Government Employment in New Zealand

Robert Gregory

Ch 4 Public Employment in Australia: In Competition with the Market

Helen Nelson

Ch 5 Public Employment in Canada: Downsizing in a Multi-layered State

James Iain Gow and Sharon L. Sutherland

Ch 6 Public Employment in the United States: Building the State from the Bottom Up

B. Guy Peters

Ch 7 The German Public Service: Between Tradition and Transformation

Hans-Ulrich Derlien

Ch 8 Working for the Government in Spain: From Authoritarian Centralism to Democratic Political Devolution

Carlos R. Alba and Carmen Navarro

Ch 9 The French Paradox: A Huge but Fragmented Public Service

Luc Rouban

Ch 10 The Political Allocation of Incessant Growth in the Danish Public Service

Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Jørgen Grønnegaard Christensen and Thomas Pallesen

Ch 11 The Welfare State is Female: Trends in Public Sector Employment in Sweden

Jon Pierre

Ch 12 Conclusion

Hans-Ulrich Derlien

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