Is the Welfare State the best way to solve social issues?
Essay - 14 pages - Economic politics
All developed countries have adopted, at different levels and in different ways, the Welfare State as an instrument to solve social issues. Despite these differences, the logic of this instrument designed to tackle social problems is fairly the same everywhere. Nevertheless, this choice of a...
« The Weapon of the Weak » for a superpower. Multilateralism and the United States Foreign Policy
Essay - 8 pages - Economic politics
One reads a lot, especially in Europe, about American hegemony, unilateralism and even imperialism. For a lot of observers, that the current United States administration is pursuing an unilateralist foreign policy is obvious. On issues ranging from the Iraqi war to global warming to the...
Regionalization and redistribution of permanent space
Essay - 6 pages - Economic politics
Regionalization is both an administrative procedure for creation of institutional areas and also the establishment of territories more or less defined boundaries, in response to the disintegration of the State-Nation. This corresponds to a permanent division of space over time. This process is...
The economic policies of the ghetto
Essay - 5 pages - Economic politics
Ghetto poverty is still the problem of 7 million of people, among the 30 million poor in the United States. It is a pressing issue, above all when we take into account media coverage that is given to these areas of social and spatial segregation. A mistake would be to consider only Black ghetto...
The United Kingdom Energy Policy
Worksheets - 2 pages - Economic politics
The United Kingdom energy policy is quite interesting to analyze. Indeed, its model is in crisis. As most of the European countries, the United Kingdom faces many challenges. Talking about the United Kingdom is also an opportunity to wonder whether the privatization of markets on which the State...
Was the political economy under Blair best described as neo-liberal or reformed Keynesian?
Essay - 9 pages - Economic politics
In order to answer the question as to whether the political economy of New Labor under Blair was best described as neo liberal or reformed Keynesianism, it is necessary to define the two ideological trajectories. Indeed, neo liberalism sees the markets as self regulating entities and transforms...
The problem of state aids as a possible source of unfair competition in the EU
Course material - 12 pages - Economic politics
A subvention is a refundable grant granted mostly by the State or a Local authority. It is paid by a public community for activities in which it neither takes the initiative, nor the responsibility. It is granted either to facilitate the execution of a public utility, or as help or support, if it...
The Finnish model of welfare state
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
Like the other Nordic Countries (Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway), Finland is well known for its generous social democracy which influences every citizen from cradle to grave. To start with an example I noticed that the Finns pay nothing for their education irrespective of the level of studies...
A Comparative Analysis of the Welfare States of Germany, Sweden, and the United States
Case study - 12 pages - Economic politics
A welfare-state is a state in which organized power is used to provide social services to a society that cannot provide these things for itself through market-based transactions. Studying the welfare-states of Germany, Sweden and the United States will provide us a valuable perspective in...
The New Labour and the Welfare State
Case study - 2 pages - Economic politics
Firstly let us analyze the approaches the New Labor has chosen through a different ideological and pragmatic frame than earlier Labor governments when it comes to welfare provision and public policies. In this context, the New Labor has followed the Thatcherite tradition in working towards what...
Local development policies in decentralised South Africa
Case study - 8 pages - Economic politics
Apartheid, the policy according to which South Africa was ruled until 1994, proved unable to help the country develop in the new economic frame of globalization. It was based on racial segregation and deprived the majority of the population from basic political and economic freedoms. In 1994,...
Discuss the disincentives on work effort induced by the tax and benefit system, and how the theory of labor supply offers alternative systems to minimize these disincentives
Essay - 7 pages - Economic politics
In the UK, USA or in France, Government is seen from different angles. A State has duties and functions. In order to look after the welfare of their citizens, it tries to improve the reputation through taxation and benefit system. The main problem for most countries is the unemployment. Few...
To what extent can the Thatcher-type reforms be applied in France or adapted to France? - published: 17/02/2009
Essay - 2 pages - Economic politics
"Something seems very wrong with this country. Once the very model of a modern major power, stable, rich and smug, it appears beset now by political and economic instability and by civil unrest and disorder. One observer has even taken to calling it "the sick man of Europe". Hardly a month passes...
How has the political economy of French capitalism evolved in the face of increasing global economic pressures?
Case study - 10 pages - Economic politics
‘The work was standardized, rigid; it has become adaptable, flexible. The institutions were paternalist, authoritarian; they have become permissive, liberal. A feeling of security reigned on the world. It is now the insecurity which is dominant' (Cohen, 2002) This international economic...
The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve System (FED)
Presentation - 25 pages - Economic politics
This document is a presentation of the European Central Bank (ECB). The national central banks (NCB) make part of the ESCB Headquarters based in Frankfurt Presentation of the FED, which was created in 1913 by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act and headquartered in Washington D.C. The...
2008 is the 30th Anniversary of the China's economic reform program. What is your overall assessment of the major achievement(s) and failure(s) of the post-Mao reforms? What could be done to solve these problems?
Essay - 7 pages - Economic politics
Exactly 30 years ago, China's leaders held the Third Plenary session of the 11th Central Committee and started the Opening-up Reform of China's economy. 30 years have passed since this date, letting time for China to do tremendous changes in its economy and to become an economic model for...
Schneider-Legrand merger: was Bruxelles "Wrong or Right"to block the merger?
Case study - 5 pages - Economic politics
This document will answer the following questions: Why did the European Commission decide to block the French merger? What was the opinion of Henri Lachmann (the CEO of Schneider Electric) about the veto? Is it usual to meet with this kind of refusal in Europe? What are the arguments against...
