Autorentext

Jerald Hage, Robert Hanneman and Edward T. Gargan

Klappentext

State Responsiveness and State Activism (1989) compares social changes and the role of the state. It evaluates which models - economic, modernization, political mobilization, class conflict - best predict the growth in social welfare and in educational expenditures.

Inhalt

1. Theories of State Responsiveness and State Activism 2. The Methodological Problems of Comparative Macro Sociology Part 1. The Growth of the Welfare State 3. Institutional Patterns in the Growth of Social Welfare 4. State Responsiveness to Social Needs and Political Pressures 5. State Involvement and Patterns of Growth in Welfare Expenditures Part 2. The Growth of Mass Education Systems 6. Institutional Patterns in the Expansion of Education 7. State Responsiveness to Educational Demand and Political Pressures 8. State Involvement and Patterns of Growth in Educational Expenditures Epilogue: A Theory of the State 9. A Theory of State Responsiveness and State Activism