The Retreat of the Interventionist State in Advanced Democracies.
Why have advanced democracies experienced a retreat of the interventionist state since 1980? This article provides evidence that in all relevant policy indicators (spending, subsidies, state-owned enterprises, regulation, capital taxation) government intervention has been scaled back across the OECD...
| Published in: | British Journal of Political Science Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 535 - 563 |
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Cambridge University Press
Apr2018
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