Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880-1940

ISBN-13: 9780299132248 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 384 str.

Ann Shola Orloff

Opis

By offering a comparative, institutional analysis of how state-supported pensions for the elderly developed in Britain, Canada and the United States, Anna Shola Orloff aims to make a contribution to understanding the growth of modern social welfare policies. It is not enough, Orloff demonstrates, to simply examine socioeconomic factors in the growth of the welfare state. She argues that welfare policies are also shaped by the political institutions and processes that are the legacy of state formation and expansion in particular nations.