Governments, Parties and Public Sector Employees Canada, United States, Britain and France |
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Author:
| Blais, Andre Blake, Donald E. |
Series title: | Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies |
ISBN: | 978-0-7735-1696-0 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1997 |
Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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Do parties matter? What effects, if any, do politics have on society? Government, Parties, and Public Sector Employees addresses such long-standing questions in political science by looking at one social group - public sector employees - and examining the hypothesis that parties and governments of the Left are more generous toward these employees than those of the Right. The central governments of four countries - Canada, United States, Britain, and France - from the 1950s to the end...
More DescriptionDo parties matter? What effects, if any, do politics have on society? Government, Parties, and Public Sector Employees addresses such long-standing questions in political science by looking at one social group - public sector employees - and examining the hypothesis that parties and governments of the Left are more generous toward these employees than those of the Right. The central governments of four countries - Canada, United States, Britain, and France - from the 1950s to the end of the 1980s are the basis of the study.