The Disappearing State?

Edited by Francis G. Castles

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781845422974
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Francis G. Castles

Ch 2 Testing the Retrenchment Hypothesis: An Aggregate Overview

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Ch 3 Data on the Functions of Government: Where Are We Now?

Neil Fraser and Paul Norris

Ch 4 The Changing Cost of Government: Trends in the State Overhead Budget

Richard Parry

Ch 5 Sinking Budgets and Ballooning Prices: Recent Developments Connected to Military Spending

Thomas R. Cusack

Ch 6 Expenditure on Public Order and Safety

Paul Norris

Ch 7 Testing the Retrenchment Hypothesis: Educational Spending, 1960–2002

Manfred G. Schmidt

Ch 8 The Real Race to the Bottom: What Happened to Economic Affairs Expenditure After 1980?

Herbert Obinger and Reimut Zohlnhöfer

Ch 9 A Mortgage on the Future? Public Debt Expenditure and Its Determinants, 1980–2001

Uwe Wagschal

Ch 10 Moving Beyond Expenditure Accounts: The Changing Contours of the Regulatory State, 1980–2003

Nico A. Siegel

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