Mass Unemployment and the State shows that domestic political arrangements--the character of party competition, the relationship between interest organizations and the state, and underlying assumptions about the purpose of political authority--have mattered greatly to the economic and labor market policies that European governments pursued in response to the problem of unemployment from the early 1970s to the 2000s. The book concentrates on four European countries: Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden. All these countries have been celebrated as employment "miracles," but for...
Mass Unemployment and the State shows that domestic political arrangements--the character of party competition, the relationship between interest orga...
