From Worlds to Cases: Case Selection and ‘Other Worlds’ in the Welfare Modelling Business

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki-tae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Welfare States ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Case Selection ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
The Common ◽  
Business Needs ◽  
Cross National ◽  
Selection Practices

The case selection issue has long been neglected in cross-national welfare regime studies, despite its importance in securing validity and reliability. This article reviews thirty-three studies that produced their own welfare regime typology, and analyses their case selection practices. They can be divided into five groups in terms of their case sizes: from Esping-Andersen's (1990) original eighteen nations to ‘all’ nations. Three peculiar patterns can be observed in the approaches. First, more than two-thirds of studies still focus on the old set of eighteen nations, arguably ignoring emerging welfare states. Second, theoretical tension exists between ‘isolationists’ and ‘expansionists’ on the exportability of the welfare regime concept to wider cases. Lastly only a few studies have clarified and justified their case selections. It is concluded that the welfare modelling business needs to rectify the common practice of ignoring case selection issues.

Assessing Welfare State Change: The German Social Insurance State between Reciprocity and Solidarity

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Leitner ◽  
Stephan Lessenich
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
State Change ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Social Policy Reform ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Different Dimensions

The analytic framework used here to study welfare state change builds upon the distinction of two fundamentally opposed logics of social exchange: the logic of reciprocity and of solidarity. The approach enables to assess the complexity and ambivalence of policy change in advanced welfare states. Using recent social policy reform in Germany as an illustration of the analytical capacity of our approach, it is shown that change can be detected in two different dimensions. One type of change is in the overall mix between reciprocity-based insurance and solidarity-based assistance programmes which makes up the specific profile of a national welfare regime. Another type is in the balance between elements of reciprocity and solidarity within social insurance schemes. This approach can be replicated with any of the developed welfare states of the OECD world.

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.

scholarly journals The Less-Known History of the Voluntary Sector in an East Asian Welfare Regime: A South Korean Case

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suyoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Welfare Mix

AbstractAlthough the voluntary sector is internationally valued as an integral component of the welfare mix, studies on East Asian welfare regimes have primarily focused on state-market-family interactions, paying scant attention to the long-standing and pivotal role of voluntary agencies in their construction. This case study illuminates this less-known aspect of modern welfare history in the context of South Korea, with a particular focus on the activities of voluntary organizations. The study categorizes South Korean voluntary associations into four types and examines their different contributions in shaping South Korea’s welfare regime, by applying Young’s framework on government–voluntary organizations relations. This historical exploration on the South Korean voluntary sector aims to deepen understanding of an East Asian welfare state regime. It further suggests that current welfare mix debates, focusing on the service delivery role of voluntary organizations within Western European welfare states, should be broadened.

scholarly journals The Common Good Balance Sheet, an Adequate Tool to Capture Non-Financials?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Felber ◽  
Vanessa Campos ◽  
Joan Ramon Sanchis
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Integrated Reporting ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Corporate Reporting ◽  
The Common

In relation to organizational performance measurement, there is a growing concern about the creation of value for people, society and the environment. The traditional corporate reporting does not adequately satisfy the information needs of stakeholders for assessing an organization’s past and future potential performance. Practitioners and scholars have developed new non-financial reporting frameworks from a social and environmental perspective, giving birth to the field of Integrated Reporting (IR). The Economy for the Common Good (ECG) model and its tools to facilitate sustainability management and reporting can provide a framework to do it. The present study is the first one that empirically validates such metrics on a sample of 206 European firms. Consequently, it allows knowledge to advance as it checks their statistical validity and reliability.

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.

Unemployment Insurance

2021 ◽  
pp. 572-588
Author(s):  
Ola Sjöberg ◽  
Eero Carroll ◽  
Joakim Palme
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Macroeconomic Stabilization ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Cross National

Unemployment is one of the ‘old risks’ that modern welfare states can be seen to have responded to, but continues to be of great importance in the twenty-first century. Unemployment insurance also appears to be more ridden by political conflicts than other social policy programmes. This chapter describes the evolution of unemployment insurance schemes in eighteen long-standing welfare states. It dates the emergence of the first laws and traces the expansion of the coverage and replacement levels of benefits during the ‘Golden Age’ to more recent periods marked by economic crisis and retrenchment in the quality of unemployment protection. Four models of unemployment insurance are identified: voluntary state-subsidized, targeted, state corporatist, and comprehensive schemes. These models sum up institutional differences that are important for understanding the cross-national variation in a broad set of outcomes—ranging from individual conditions and behaviours, such as poverty and labour supply, to macroeconomic stabilization. The quality of unemployment insurance contributes to explain, among other things, differences in poverty rates over time and among nations.

scholarly journals Transparency and Replication in Cross-national Survey Research: Identification of Problems and Possible Solutions

2019 ◽  
pp. 004912411988245
Author(s):  
Elena Damian ◽  
Bart Meuleman ◽  
Wim van Oorschot
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Research Transparency ◽  
National Studies ◽  
Cross National

In this article, we examine whether cross-national studies disclose enough information for independent researchers to evaluate the validity and reliability of the findings (evaluation transparency) or to perform a direct replication (replicability transparency). The first contribution is theoretical. We develop a heuristic theoretical model including the actors, factors, and processes that influence the transparency of cross-national studies and provide an overview of the measures currently taken to improve research transparency. The second contribution is empirical, in which we analyze the level of transparency in published cross-national studies. Specifically, using a random sample of 305 comparative studies published in one of 29 peer-reviewed social sciences journals (from 1986 to 2016), we show that, even though all the articles include some methodological information, the great majority lack sufficient information for evaluation and replication. Lastly, we develop and propose a set of transparency guidelines tailored for reporting cross-national survey research.

Between government unilateralism and corporatist bargaining: public sector pension reforms in the UK and Ireland, 2000s–2010s

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Sung Ho Park
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Pension Reforms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Unions ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Uk

AbstractStudies on welfare reform in advanced European countries have identified two established paths to welfare retrenchment: government unilateralism and corporatist bargaining. This study explores a more complicated path to welfare reform, wherein governments pursue ‘non-corporatist’ bargaining by actively combining features of unilateralism and negotiation. Such a hybrid case is explained by employing an ‘insider-outsider’ framework for public policy reform. The key argument is that the presence of exclusive insiders complicates the reform process, disqualifying both unilateralism and corporatist bargaining as feasible options for benefit cuts. The author demonstrates the validity of this claim by examining three cases of public sector pension retrenchment in the UK and Ireland during the 2000s and 2010s. Defying the common expectation that benefit cuts in residual welfare states would be promoted with government unilateralism, the public sector pension reforms in the UK and Ireland exhibited more complicated features which combined governments' unilateral initiatives andad hocnegotiations with public sector unions. Future studies may build on this finding to examine hybrid reform cases in a general European context.

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