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Social Democracy and Rational Choice: The Scandinavian Experience and beyond
By Henry Milner
316 pages
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Synopsis
Is it possible in this post-socialist world, for equity and efficiency to be reconciled ? Or is a productive welfare state a contradication in terms ? This book addresses these questions in theory and in practice, using the Nordic countries as its case study. Social Democracy and Rational Choice will appeal to readers interested in comparative institutional and policy analysis, and in particular to those concerned with the future of the welfare state and the latest developments in the Nordic countries.
Is it possible in this post-socialist world, for equity and efficiency to be reconciled ? Or is a productive welfare state a contradication in terms ? This book addresses these questions in theory and in practice, using the Nordic countries as its case study. Social Democracy and Rational Choice will appeal to readers interested in comparative institutional and policy analysis, and in particular to those concerned with the future of the welfare state and the latest developments in the Nordic countries.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Figures viii
- Preface ix
- Introduction 1
- Part I - Towards a Social-Democratic Political Economy 17
- 1 - The Political Economy of Distributive Justice 19
- 2 - The Uses of Rational Choice 33
- 3 - Preferences, Choices and Outcomes 48
- 4 - Positional Competition and Knowledge Failure 65
- Part II - From Theory to Practice 77
- 5 - Social-Democratic Political Economy— Initial Guidelines 79
- 6 - Commercialism and the Knowledge for Rational Institutional Choices 95
- 7 - Corporatism, Organizations and Institutional Choice 114
- 8 - Rationality, Accountability and Structures of Government 131
- Part III - The Prospects for Nordic Social Democracy 147
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Figures viii
- Preface ix
- Introduction 1
- Part I - Towards a Social-Democratic Political Economy 17
- 1 - The Political Economy of Distributive Justice 19
- 2 - The Uses of Rational Choice 33
- 3 - Preferences, Choices and Outcomes 48
- 4 - Positional Competition and Knowledge Failure 65
- Part II - From Theory to Practice 77
- 5 - Social-Democratic Political Economy— Initial Guidelines 79
- 6 - Commercialism and the Knowledge for Rational Institutional Choices 95
- 7 - Corporatism, Organizations and Institutional Choice 114
- 8 - Rationality, Accountability and Structures of Government 131
- Part III - The Prospects for Nordic Social Democracy 147
- 9 - The Institutions of Scandinavian Social Democracy Today and Tomorrow: I 149
- 10 - The Institutions of Scandinavian Social Democracy Today and Tomorrow: II 171
- 11 - The Ec, the Nordic Countries and the Institutional Arrangements of Social Democracy 196
- Conclusion 221
- Notes 233
- Bibliography 268
- Index 289