The disappearing staté : retrenchment realities in an age of globalisation /

Main Author: Castles, Francis Geoffrey, 1943-
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Francis G. Castles
  • Testing the retrenchment hypothesis : an aggregate overview / Francis G. Castles
  • Data on the functions of government : where are we now? / Neil Fraser and Paul Norris
  • The changing cost of government : trends in the state overhead budget / Richard Parry
  • Sinking budgets and ballooning prices : recent developments connected to military spending / Thomas R. Cusack
  • Expenditure on public order and safety / Paul Norris
  • Testing the retrenchment hypothesis : educational spending, 1960-2002 / Manfred G. Schmidt
  • The real race to the bottom : what happened to economic affairs expenditure after 1980? / Herbert Obinger and Reimut Zohlnho?fer
  • A mortgage on the future? : public debt expenditure and its determinants, 1980-2001 / Uwe Wagschal
  • Moving beyond expenditure accounts : the changing contours of the regulatory state, 1980-2003 / Nico A. Siegel