Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Federalism and the welfare state / Herbert Obinger, Francis G. Castles and Stephan Leibfried
  • Australia : federal constraints and institutional innovations / Francis G. Castles and John Uhr
  • Canada : nation-building in a federal welfare state / Keith Banting
  • The United States : federalism and its counter-factuals / Kenneth Finegold
  • Austria : strong parties in a weak federal polity / Herbert Obinger
  • Germany : co-operative federalism and the overgrazing of the fiscal commons / Philip Manow
  • Switzerland : the marriage of direct democracy and federalism / Herbert Obinger ... [et al.]
  • 'Old' and 'new politics' in federal welfare states / Stephan Leibfried, Francis G. Castles and Herbert Obinger.