Redefining the State
Subtitle: Privatization and Welfare Reform in Industrial and Transitional Economies
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521024181
Subjects: Constitution: government & the state; Economics; Politics - Current Events; Comparative government; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; State, The; Business/Economics; Public Policy - Economic Policy; History & Theory - General; Post-Communism; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Political Science-History & Theory - General; Political Science-Public Policy - Economic Policy; State, The State, The; Comparative economics; Economics - General
First sentence: The emerging and then consolidating European monarchic states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries inherited from the powerful examples of the medieval city-states such as Milan, Florence, Bologna, Genoa, and Venice a tradition of continuous interventions of the central power in the economic and social life of their communities, along with a strong impulse toward an incessant warfare of competition and aggression.