Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States »

Post-1970 international capital mobility has not contributed to the retrenchment of developed welfare states.

1. Introduction;
2. Globalization, democracy, and the welfare state;
3. Global capital, political institutions, and contemporary welfare state development: quantitative analysis;
4. Big welfare states in global markets: internationalization and welfare state reform in the Nordic social democracies;
5. Globalization and policy change in corporatist conservative welfare states;
6. Internationalization and liberal welfare states: a synopsis;
7. Assessing long-term impacts: the impact of globalization on taxation, institutions, and control of the macroeonomy;
8. Conclusions: national welfare states in a global economy.