Globalization and Taxation

1996

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 1998

European Review, 2013

When the debate on globalization started in the early 1990s, the dominant assumption was that globalization was a shocking new phenomenon. Moreover, this new development was seen as an attempt to undermine the sovereignty and economic functions of the nation state, hence undermining the fundamental basis of the welfare state. According to this perspective, the welfare state was expected to collapse as a result of economic constraints. Some influential publications promoted the idea that countries would find themselves captured in a global trap. At least in the field of social sciences, this thesis was interpreted differently: the weakening of the nation state by globalization was considered a myth that served as an excuse for cutting government budgets. Since then, the social sciences have developed an approach to globalization as a long-term trend within the capitalistic framework, driven by economic and political developments and dependent on pre-existing social conditions.

2018

2019

Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics

Comparative Political Studies, 2002

American Journal of Sociology, 2006

Review of Globalization and the Welfare State (Miguel Glatzer and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds.; University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). What is the relationship between economic globalization and the evolution of the welfare state? Social scientists have posed this question largely in the context of Northwestern Europe and the Anglo-Saxon world. Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State is unusual in asking it with regard to middle-income countries and in so doing offers insightful case studies of welfare regimes outside the traditional stomping ground of welfare-state analysts. The book’s core comprises five case studies: Latin America, Iberia, east-central Europe, Russia, and South Korea.