State, Class, and Bureaucracy: Canadian Unemployment Insurance and Public Policy

by Leslie A. Pal

Recent explanations of public policy have increasingly focused on "state-centred" theories which emphasize internal state dynamics, as opposed to "society-centred" theories which concentrate on external forces such as interest group pressure. State, Class, and Bureaucracy assesses the fruitfulness of these approaches by comparing neo-Marxist and neo-pluralist explanations (society-centred) with explanations that emphasize the effects of bureaucracy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773506233
• ISBN13: 9780773506237
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 224 Pages