The State at Work: Public Sector Employment in Ten Western Countries

Title Page
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Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1. Introduction: the state at work......Page 14
2. Public employment in Britain: from working in to working for the public sector?......Page 32
3. Breaking sharply with the past: government employment in New Zealand......Page 53
4. Public employment in Australia: in competition with the market......Page 89
5. Public employment in Canada: downsizing in a multi-layered state......Page 119
6. Public employment in the United States: building the state from the bottom up......Page 153
7. The German public service: between tradition and tranformation......Page 183
8. Working for the government in Spain: from authoritarian centralism to democratic political devolution......Page 209
9. The French paradox: a huge but fragmented public service......Page 235
10. The political allocation of incessant growth in the Danish public service......Page 262
11. The welfare state is female: trends in public sector employment in Sweden......Page 281
12. Conclusion......Page 296
Index......Page 306