The disappearing state? : retrenchment realities in an age of globalisation /

Revisions of papers presented at a workshop held Mar. 2006 in Delmenhorst, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Francis G. Castles -- Testing the retrenchment hypothesis : an aggregate overview / Francis G. Castles -- Data on the functions of government : where are we now? / Neil Fraser and Paul Norris -- The changing cost of government : trends in the state overhead budget / Richard Parry -- Sinking budgets and ballooning prices : recent developments connected to military spending / Thomas R. Cusack -- Expenditure on public order and safety / Paul Norris -- Testing the retrenchment hypothesis : educational spending, 1960-2002 / Manfred G. Schmidt -- The real race to the bottom : what happened to economic affairs expenditure after 1980? / Herbert Obinger and Reimut Zohlnhofer -- A mortgage on the future? : public debt expenditure and its determinants, 1980-2001 / Uwe Wagschal -- Moving beyond expenditure accounts : the changing contours of the regulatory state, 1980-2003 / Nico A. Siegel.