Is globalisation undermining the welfare state?
分析了1946-2000年OECD国家福利国家的演变，发现全球化并未导致福利国家缩小，社会公共支出和公共就业反而持续增长，福利国家仍受政治传统影响。
This paper analyses the evolution of the welfare states in the majority of OECD countries during the pre-globalisation (1946–80) and globalisation (1980–2000) periods. Our purpose is to find out whether globalisation has produced a convergence towards a smaller welfare state, funded increasingly by non-mobile factors such as labour, property and consumption rather than by mobile factors such as capital. The data presented here challenge the claims about such a convergence, showing that social public expenditures and public employment have continued to expand during the globalisation period in most OECD countries. We also show that the welfare states remain rooted in the political traditions that have governed them.