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"Cet ouvrage analyse le développement et l'état actuel des politiques sociales européennes dans des domaines tels que la protection des plus démunis, les conditions de travail et les relations professionnelles, le développement régional, l'égalité de traitement entre les sexes, l'agriculture, l'immigration et la protection sociale. Les auteurs montrent que les politiques sociales européennes en conjonction avec la construction du marché unique, sont le fruit d'un système à multiples niveaux de décision."

"A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time -the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.
We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven't. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current economic crisis, even as the rest of Americans have continued to fall behind. Why do the "haveit- alls" have so much more? And how have they managed to restructure the economy to reap the lion's share of the gains and shift the costs of their new economic playground downward, tearing new holes in the safety net and saddling all of us with increased debt and risk? Lots of so-called experts claim to have solved this great mystery, but no one has really gotten to the bottom of it -until now.
In their lively and provocative Winner-Take-All Politics, renowned political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson demonstrate convincingly that the usual suspects -foreign trade and financial globalization, technological changes in the workplace, increased education at the top- are largely innocent of the charges against them. Instead, they indict an unlikely suspect and take us on an entertaining tour of the mountain of evidence against the culprit. The guilty party is American politics. Runaway inequality and the present economic crisis reflect what government has done to aid the rich and what it has not done to safeguard the interests of the middle class. The winner-take-all economy is primarily a result of winner-take-all politics. "