The disappearing state?
Subtitle: retrenchment realities in an age of globalisation
By: edited by Francis G. Castles.
Contributors: Castles, Francis Geoffrey.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845422974
Subjects: Expenditures, Public; Government spending policy; Government spending policy -- OECD countries; OECD countries -- Appropriations and expenditures
Notes: Revisions of papers presented at a workshop held Mar. 2006 in Delmenhorst, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Francis G. Castles; title: Testing the retrenchment hypothesis : an aggregate overview / Francis G. Castles; title: Data on the functions of government : where are we now? / Neil Fraser and Paul Norris; title: The changing cost of government : trends in the state overhead budget / Richard Parry; title: Sinking budgets and ballooning prices : recent developments connected to military spending / Thomas R. Cusack; title: Expenditure on public order and safety / Paul Norris; title: Testing the retrenchment hypothesis : educational spending, 1960-2002 / Manfred G. Schmidt; title: The real race to the bottom : what happened to economic affairs expenditure after 1980? / Herbert Obinger and Reimut Zohlnhofer; title: A mortgage on the future? : public debt expenditure and its determinants, 1980-2001 / Uwe Wagschal; title: Moving beyond expenditure accounts : the changing contours of the regulatory state, 1980-2003 / Nico A. Siegel.