Welfare Regimes and Global Cities: A Missing Link in the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States?

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN HUDSON
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Global City ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Nation States ◽  
National Welfare

AbstractThe ‘welfare modelling business’ has been at the heart of comparative social policy analysis but debate has largely proceeded on the basis that coherent national welfare states exist. This assumption was always problematic but globalisation processes have added a further dimension to this debate. In particular, geographers and sociologists have pointed to the increasing power of global cities that act as co-ordinating hubs for the global economy. Though residing in nation states, these cities have a special status flowing from their central role in the global economy. Little attempt has been made to explore the implications of these cities for welfare regimes and welfare regime analysis. This paper addresses this under explored issue and suggests there are strong overlaps between global city types and welfare types.

Migration and the Political Economy of the Welfare State

1986 ◽  
Vol 485 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
GARY P. FREEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
The Status ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Closed Systems ◽  
Welfare Politics ◽  
The Welfare State

National welfare states are compelled by their logic to be closed systems that seek to insulate themselves from external pressures and that restrict rights and benefits to members. They nonetheless fail to be perfectly bounded in a global economy marked by competition, interdependence, and extreme inequality. This article explores the consequences of transnational flows of labor both for the status of migrants who move to welfare states and for the viability of welfare states themselves. The consequences of migration for the fiscal and political stability of welfare states are discussed, and it is argued that migration has contributed to the Americanization of European welfare politics. It is concluded that the relatively free movement of labor across national frontiers exposes the tension between closed welfare states and open economies and that, ultimately, national welfare states cannot coexist with the free movement of labor.

Ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Stuart White
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
The Core ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Normative Issues ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter seeks to clarify some of the core ethical arguments surrounding welfare states. The analysis focuses on three key values. First, we will consider the concept of need. What are basic needs? How do we conceptualize and measure them? Do citizens have rights to what they need? Second, we focus on principles of equality and, third, we look at arguments surrounding the implications of the welfare state for liberty. A final section concludes by noting some normative issues moving increasingly to the forefront of debate. A changing global political context raises new issues about the international salience of these issues, questions which national welfare states have found it difficult to address.

Russian economic stagnation heightens instability risk

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Domestic Investment ◽  
Military Reform ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Zero Growth ◽  
The Military ◽  
Welfare Fund ◽  
Economic Outlook

Subject Russia's economic outlook. Significance According to Russia's Central Bank, at the end of June, Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves totalled 362 billion dollars. The current recession in Russia is not turning into the dramatic downturn that some had forecast. However, a different concern is being raised by Russian leaders: a fear of stagnation in the longer term. They do not use that term in its usual meaning of zero growth; the concern is rather that Russia will fail to keep pace with the rest of the world and it will grow more slowly than the global economy as a whole. The prospect of a sluggish economy concerns both the leadership and the population. Impacts It will be difficult for Russia to fulfil the military reform programme without lowering other spending as finances remain tight. Public unrest over economic conditions is likely; whether this translates into protests against Putin himself depends on his durability. The Reserve Fund and the National Welfare Fund will be drawn down to support the budget and domestic investment.

Farewell flexicurity? Danish flexicurity and the crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bredgaard ◽  
Per Kongshøj Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Before the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, flexicurity topped the European labour market and social policy agenda. It was acclaimed for combining the flexibility of liberal labour markets with the security of social welfare states, thereby offering a viable formula for success in the new global economy. Nowhere was this better exemplified than in Denmark, with the Danish system repeatedly highlighted as a good example of flexicurity in action. In this article, we revisit the flexicurity concept, assessing how the Danish labour market came through the crisis. We argue that the economic crisis and especially political reforms of the unemployment insurance system have challenged the institutional complementarities of flexicurity, but that the Danish labour market is recovering and adapting to new challenges. The Danish case illustrates that institutional complementarities between flexibility and security are fragile and liable to disintegrate if the institutions providing flexicurity are not maintained and supported.

Eastern European welfare states: the impact of the politics of globalization

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Deacon
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Maintenance Policy ◽  
Transition To Capitalism ◽  
The Impact

This article is divided into four parts. First there is a summary of the social policy of the old state-socialist regimes, some description of the legacy of social problems which they bequeathed to those making the transition to capitalism and a brief summary of the major social costs of the early years of the transition process. Second, the broad social-policy strategies of the new governments of Eastern Europe and the former USSR are reviewed as they have attempted to manage both the legacy of social problems from the past and the new social costs of transition. Third, in more detail developments in five specific fields are described: levels of public expenditure on social welfare; income maintenance policy; health and medical care; housing; and education. The article concludes by attempting to explain these changes, asking whether the policy changes have been motivated by a perceived need to reduce social provision, with a view to becoming more competitive within the global economy.

scholarly journals Comparison and Classification of World Economies by E-Commerce Level

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Марина Архипова ◽  
Marina Arhipova ◽  
Елена Ямбуренко ◽  
Elena Yamburenko
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Digital Commerce ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
Intuitive Method ◽  
National Economies

The fast-paced digitalization of the global economy takes place along the growing importance and share of e commerce in the global trade. International organizations and governments consider e commerce a potential driver of economic growth and improvements in the national welfare, as well as a smart tool for overall catch-up effect. However, there is little agreement among the todays’ academic and political communities about any factors that are key to the development of digital commerce and better ways helping to tackle political and regulatory issues that affect it. Researchers aim at comparing and classifying national economies by the level of e commerce with due regard to the main aspects of their functioning, as well as testing the hypothesis that the level of digital commerce varies significantly by the world economies driven by diffe­rent key factors in the formation of the digital economy. The research methods are goal-dependent and relate to benchmarking performed using multidimensional classification of objects under study, in particular, using agglomerative hierarchical algorithms. Interpreting outcomes involves the logical-intuitive method of generalizing and concluding. The findings of this study are of interest to international and national governmental and non-governmental organizations driving the global, regional and/or national economies, and can serve as a springboard for further research using the insights obtained in the course of this project.

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