Christopher Pierson
Biographic Data
| ID | 247369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Pierson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierson |
| SIGNATURE | PIERSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8939-2044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
This is the comprehensively revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as ‘the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published’. Of its fifty-one chapters, some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are all right up to date. The first seven sections of the book cover the themes of ethics, history, approaches, inputs and actors, policies, policy outcomes, …
Intellectual Roots of the Welfare State
This chapter considers the intellectual roots of the welfare state in changing views about states and their competences from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth centuries. This happens in particular national contexts, with differing patterns of both democratization and bureaucratization. From the beginning, we can observe patterns of international learning and policy transfer. This process is traced through a number of nat…
Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
Just Property
Just Property
Vol. 1. This text traces the complex lineages of thinking about private property from ancient to modern times. It challenges a number of deep-seated assumptions we make about the incontestability of private property by building a careful and extended account of where these assumptions came from.
The Greeks
This chapter surveys accounts of property in the ancient Greek world, primarily in the work of Plato and Aristotle. The belief that Plato speaks unambiguously for collective ownership and Aristotle for private property proves to be an oversimplification. Although Aristotle certainly offers an extensive defence of the virtues of individual possession (and one which is lastingly influential), both thinkers endorse a mixed model of public-private ow…
The Modern State
The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the 21st Century. The book has been entirely revised and updated throughout, including substantial new material on the financial crisis and the env…
Continuity and discontinuity in the emergence of the ‘post-Fordist’ welfare state
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
Conversations with Anthony Giddens
Globalisation and the changing governance of welfare states
(1998). Globalisation and the changing governance of welfare states: Superannuation reform in Australia. Global Society: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 31-47
Contemporary Challenges to Welfare State Development
A New Convergence? Recent policy developments in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
It is frequently argued that we are living through a new era of welfare state ‘convergence’. Under the impact of increasingly globalized international economic forces, governments everywhere are said to be driven to adopt much the same policy agenda of retrenchment and retreat. In this paper, we test the plausibility of this expectation by considering the recent experience of welfare state reform in three English-speaking nation states–Australia,…
Socialism after Communism
Preface. Introduction. Part I: The Death of Socialism? . 1. Socialisma s Disappearing Social Base. 2. The Declining Political Economy of Socialism. 3. The Ideological and Epistemological Crises of Socialism at a The End of Historya . Part II: The Case For Market Socialism. . 4. A Model of Market Socialism. Part III: Market Socialism Assessed. . 5. Market Socialism: a A Contradiction in Termsa ?. 6. The Political Economy of Labour Management. 7. D…
Marxism recycled
Liberal socialism
Gramsci, historical materialism and international relations
(1994). Gramsci, historical materialism and international relations. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 584-586
The death of socialism?’ 1989 and all that
(1994). ‘The death of socialism?’ 1989 and all that. History of European Ideas: Vol. 19, No. 1-3, pp. 333-339
Beyond the Welfare State
Democracy, Markets and Capital
This article reviews the neo-liberal case for economic limits to democracy, assesses the counterposed argument of socialists and social democrats and considers why the latters' practical experience in ‘democratizing economic life’ has been so unsatisfactory. The second half of the paper considers the claim that some form of market socialism can overcome these limitations. While the market socialists have some success in undermining the claims of …
State Responsiveness and State Activism
The “Exceptional”United States
The author discusses the American welfare state in the context of Lash and Urry's thesis on ‘disorganized capitalism’. Attention is directed to the claim that the US welfare state has been the laggard of organized capitalism but is becoming the pathbreaker in defining patterns of public welfare provision under an increasingly disorganized capitalism. In this context the US may be “showing the way” to the welfare states of Western Europe. A number…
La Terza Via
A Short History of Sociological Thought
Shorter Notices
Conversations with Anthony Giddens
A New Convergence? Recent policy developments in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
It is frequently argued that we are living through a new era of welfare state ‘convergence’. Under the impact of increasingly globalized international economic forces, governments everywhere are said to be driven to adopt much the same policy agenda of retrenchment and retreat. In this paper, we test the plausibility of this expectation by considering the recent experience of welfare state reform in three English-speaking nation states–Australia,…
State Responsiveness and State Activism
A Short History of Sociological Thought
Contemporary Challenges to Welfare State Development
Socialism after Communism
Preface. Introduction. Part I: The Death of Socialism? . 1. Socialisma s Disappearing Social Base. 2. The Declining Political Economy of Socialism. 3. The Ideological and Epistemological Crises of Socialism at a The End of Historya . Part II: The Case For Market Socialism. . 4. A Model of Market Socialism. Part III: Market Socialism Assessed. . 5. Market Socialism: a A Contradiction in Termsa ?. 6. The Political Economy of Labour Management. 7. D…
Globalisation and the changing governance of welfare states
(1998). Globalisation and the changing governance of welfare states: Superannuation reform in Australia. Global Society: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 31-47
Democracy, Markets and Capital
This article reviews the neo-liberal case for economic limits to democracy, assesses the counterposed argument of socialists and social democrats and considers why the latters' practical experience in ‘democratizing economic life’ has been so unsatisfactory. The second half of the paper considers the claim that some form of market socialism can overcome these limitations. While the market socialists have some success in undermining the claims of …
The “Exceptional”United States
The author discusses the American welfare state in the context of Lash and Urry's thesis on ‘disorganized capitalism’. Attention is directed to the claim that the US welfare state has been the laggard of organized capitalism but is becoming the pathbreaker in defining patterns of public welfare provision under an increasingly disorganized capitalism. In this context the US may be “showing the way” to the welfare states of Western Europe. A number…
New Theories of State and Civil Society Recent Developments in Post-Marxist Analysis of the State
For many theorists the problem of the capitalist state is seen to have been exhaustively posed in the 1970s by Miliband, Poulantzas and the state derivationists. Yet more recent years have seen the same issues that underlay these positions fuel a much broader and, in terms of the Marxist tradition, more heretical discussion of the nature of the relationship of state and society. This article traces the way in which this more recent debate has eme…
The Modern State
The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the 21st Century. The book has been entirely revised and updated throughout, including substantial new material on the financial crisis and the env…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices
New Theories of State and Civil Society Recent Developments in Post-Marxist Analysis of the State
For many theorists the problem of the capitalist state is seen to have been exhaustively posed in the 1970s by Miliband, Poulantzas and the state derivationists. Yet more recent years have seen the same issues that underlay these positions fuel a much broader and, in terms of the Marxist tradition, more heretical discussion of the nature of the relationship of state and society. This article traces the way in which this more recent debate has eme…
A Short History of Sociological Thought
La Terza Via
The “Exceptional”United States
The author discusses the American welfare state in the context of Lash and Urry's thesis on ‘disorganized capitalism’. Attention is directed to the claim that the US welfare state has been the laggard of organized capitalism but is becoming the pathbreaker in defining patterns of public welfare provision under an increasingly disorganized capitalism. In this context the US may be “showing the way” to the welfare states of Western Europe. A number…
State Responsiveness and State Activism
Democracy, Markets and Capital
This article reviews the neo-liberal case for economic limits to democracy, assesses the counterposed argument of socialists and social democrats and considers why the latters' practical experience in ‘democratizing economic life’ has been so unsatisfactory. The second half of the paper considers the claim that some form of market socialism can overcome these limitations. While the market socialists have some success in undermining the claims of …
Beyond the Welfare State
Gramsci, historical materialism and international relations
(1994). Gramsci, historical materialism and international relations. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 584-586
The death of socialism?’ 1989 and all that
(1994). ‘The death of socialism?’ 1989 and all that. History of European Ideas: Vol. 19, No. 1-3, pp. 333-339
Marxism recycled
Liberal socialism
A New Convergence? Recent policy developments in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
It is frequently argued that we are living through a new era of welfare state ‘convergence’. Under the impact of increasingly globalized international economic forces, governments everywhere are said to be driven to adopt much the same policy agenda of retrenchment and retreat. In this paper, we test the plausibility of this expectation by considering the recent experience of welfare state reform in three English-speaking nation states–Australia,…
Socialism after Communism
Preface. Introduction. Part I: The Death of Socialism? . 1. Socialisma s Disappearing Social Base. 2. The Declining Political Economy of Socialism. 3. The Ideological and Epistemological Crises of Socialism at a The End of Historya . Part II: The Case For Market Socialism. . 4. A Model of Market Socialism. Part III: Market Socialism Assessed. . 5. Market Socialism: a A Contradiction in Termsa ?. 6. The Political Economy of Labour Management. 7. D…
Conversations with Anthony Giddens
Globalisation and the changing governance of welfare states
(1998). Globalisation and the changing governance of welfare states: Superannuation reform in Australia. Global Society: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 31-47
Contemporary Challenges to Welfare State Development
Continuity and discontinuity in the emergence of the ‘post-Fordist’ welfare state
The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
The Modern State
The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the 21st Century. The book has been entirely revised and updated throughout, including substantial new material on the financial crisis and the env…
Just Property
Just Property
Vol. 1. This text traces the complex lineages of thinking about private property from ancient to modern times. It challenges a number of deep-seated assumptions we make about the incontestability of private property by building a careful and extended account of where these assumptions came from.
The Greeks
This chapter surveys accounts of property in the ancient Greek world, primarily in the work of Plato and Aristotle. The belief that Plato speaks unambiguously for collective ownership and Aristotle for private property proves to be an oversimplification. Although Aristotle certainly offers an extensive defence of the virtues of individual possession (and one which is lastingly influential), both thinkers endorse a mixed model of public-private ow…
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Welfare state (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)