Trade and Social Insurance: the Development of National Unemployment Insurance in Advanced Industrial Democracies

A national award-winning study of the political and economic foundations of the modern welfare state. Cross-national statistical and four historical case studies of the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, and the USA show how international trade dependence helped shaped national universal unemployment insurance systems in developed democracies. This challenges the conventional wisdom that these programs were mostly determined by labor organization and Left-Labor governments in power.

The study won the American Political Science Association's Harold D. Lasswell Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Field of Policy Studies completed in 1998-1999 and was first runner-up to the National Academy of Social Insurance's John Heinz Dissertation Award in 2000.

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