A New Convergence? Recent policy developments in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6326457 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francis G Castles (Australian National University), Christopher Pierson (0000-0001-8939-2044, University of Nottingham) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 233-245 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557396782148499 |
| OpenAlex | W2070766277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
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, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. We find that whilst all three nations have faced common challenges and have had recourse to similar sorts of policy instruments, there is enough diversity in their experience to suggest that ‘politics still matters’ and that suppositions of ‘convergence’ need to be heavily qualified
Convergence (economics · Diversity (politics · Economic growth · Economics · Kingdom · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Retrenchment · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare state · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2023 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |