Retrenchment and the New Right: A Comparative Analysis of theImpacts of the Thatcherand Reagan Administrations

Patricia Ruggles; Michael O’Higgins

doi:10.4324/9781003575450-10

Retrenchment and the New Right: A Comparative Analysis of theImpacts of the Thatcherand Reagan Administrations

Patricia Ruggles, Michael O’Higgins

The Urban Institute

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Abstract

The tensions between the demands of the private market and the cost of expanding state obligations for welfare provision were masked in the quarter century after World War II by consistent economic growth in the mixed capitalist societies. Increases in real social expenditure could be financed from the increment in real national income without directly confronting the issues of income redistribution or policy trade-offs in resources allocation, which are inescapable in low growth economies. In this sense, the “welfare state” was indeed the “residual beneficiary of the Growth State.”1.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Stagnation and Renewal in Social Policy
Subtitle of host publication	The Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes
Editors	Martin Rein, Gosta Esping-Andersen, Lee Rainwater
Place of Publication	New York, U. K.
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	8
Pages	160-190
Number of pages	31
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781040287187, 9781003575450
ISBN (Print)	9780873323901
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003575450-10
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 1987
Externally published	Yes

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Retrenchment and the New Right: A Comparative Analysis of theImpacts of the Thatcherand Reagan Administrations. / Ruggles, Patricia; O’Higgins, Michael.
Stagnation and Renewal in Social Policy: The Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes. ed. / Martin Rein; Gosta Esping-Andersen; Lee Rainwater. 1st. ed. New York, U. K.: Routledge, 1987. p. 160-190.

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