2007. Why Welfare States Persist: The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Brooks, Clem and Jeff Manza (2007): Why welfare states persist: the importance of public opinion in democracies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press....
For years the welfare state was one of the glories of Britain's democratic landscape, a monument to the generosity and decency of human nature, offering a hand up to those unlucky enough to be born at the bottom. Seven decades on, however, the British people seem to be falling out of...
Why we need a new welfare state 喜欢 0 阅读量: 127 作者: Gøsta 摘要: Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust and examine which kind of welfare architecture will further ...
This paper argues that the root of this phenomenon lies in a political conflict between the Left and the Right in the absence of a credible commitment device: The Left can only develop welfare-state policies of redistribution with a minimum degree of state capacity such as an effective tax ...
Each state can implement its own sales taxes, meaning they vary depending on location. There's even room for cities and counties to use their own rates, provided that they abide by the taxing rules of their state. In 2024, the highest average state and local sales tax rate was found in...
It’s as if they didn’t learn a thing from the 2012 elections. Republicans are on the same suicide mission as before - - trying to block immigration reform (if they can’t scuttle it in the Senate, they’re ready to in the House), roll back the clock on
The number of Germans applying for a hunting permit in 2020 was 19,000 – twice as many as 10 years ago, according to NHF spokeswoman Anna Martinsohn. Alexander Polfers, director of a hunting school in Emsland in the northern state of Lower Saxony, says those new ...
but our instincts are not shaped by the welfare state. Men are driven to take risks, improvising, which is why we see so much greater jazz improvisation by men, or risk taking in any area. Baumeister states it isn’t the ability, so much as the drive to excel that leads them to cre...
Universal education care! Single-payer! Bring Swedish-style socialized education to the Badger state! Confession: I was once a public sector teacher in Wisconsin (albeit for only one semester.) Madison fun facts: America’s two greatest artists lived there. One for just a year, the other grew...
While “suitability” was the standard for transactional accounts or brokerage accounts, the U.S.Department of Labor Fiduciary Ruleproposed to toughen things up for brokers. Anyone with retirement money under management, who made recommendations or solicitations for an individual retirement account or ...