State Responsiveness and State Activism : An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies That Explain the Rise in Social Expenditures in Bri (Hardcover)

1. Theories of State Responsiveness and State Activism? 2. The Methodological Problems of Comparative Macro Sociology? Part 1. The Growth of the Welfare State? 3. Institutional Patterns in the Growth of Social Welfare? 4. State Responsiveness to Social Needs and Political Pressures? 5. State Involvement and Patterns of Growth in Welfare Expenditures? Part 2. The Growth of Mass Education Systems? 6. Institutional Patterns in the Expansion of Education? 7. State Responsiveness to Educational Demand and Political Pressures? 8. State Involvement and Patterns of Growth in Educational Expenditures? Epilogue: A Theory of the State? 9. A Theory of State Responsiveness and State Activism