Incarceration and Relative Poverty in Cross-National Perspective: The Moderating Roles of Female Employment and the Welfare State

Some of the most promising work on mass incarceration, the retributive turn in penal policy, and growing inequalities in the United States employs a historical institutional lens. This work has illuminated the origins of the carceral state and the possibilities for dismantling it, the sources of interstate and cross-national variations in penal policy, and the role of race, gender, and the transformation of the welfare state in the construction of the carceral state. Going forward, illumination of pressing political problems like the carceral state will require that historical institutionalism retain or resurrect some of the qualities that originally made it so distinctive—even if that cuts against the grain of the wider discipline of political science.

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Medical Care in the Welfare State: A Cross-National Study of Public Evaluations

Journal of Health and Social Behavior ◽

10.2307/2136653 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 276 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Bernice A. Pescosolido ◽

Carol A. Boyer ◽

Wai Ying Tsui

Keyword(s):

Welfare State ◽

Medical Care ◽

National Study ◽

Cross National Study ◽

Cross National ◽

The Welfare State

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Social Expenditure and Welfare State Financing

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198828389.013.26 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 452-472

Author(s):

Herbert Obinger

Keyword(s):

Welfare State ◽

Social Spending ◽

Social Expenditure ◽

National Differences ◽

Welfare State Development ◽

State Financing ◽

The Impact ◽

Western Democracies ◽

Cross National ◽

The Welfare State

This chapter focuses on both the expenditures and the revenues of the welfare state. Using the latest data available, it depicts and analyses major developments in social spending and public revenues in twenty-one advanced Western democracies since 1980. The entry discusses measurement issues, depicts the determinants of cross-national differences in spending and revenue levels identified in the literature, and sheds light on the impact of social spending and taxation on social outcomes, such as income inequality. It is argued that spending and revenue figures, irrespective of several shortcomings, provide important indicators of both the logic and pattern of welfare state development.

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Grandparents Caring for their Grandchildren

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x08322627 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 53-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 274

Author(s):

Karsten Hank ◽

Isabella Buber

Keyword(s):

Child Care ◽

Welfare State ◽

Family Support ◽

Labor Force Participation ◽

Complex Interaction ◽

Female Employment ◽

Intensity Of Care ◽

Work Family ◽

Cross National

Introducing findings from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this research complements the large number of recent U.S. studies on the role of grandparents in caring for their grandchildren. For 10 continental European countries, the authors investigate cross-national variations in grandparent-provided child care as well as differences in characteristics of the providers and recipients of care. Although they find strong involvement of grandparents in their grandchildren's care across all countries, they also identify significant variations in the prevalence and intensity of care along the geographic lines of different child care and (maternal or female) employment regimes in Europe. Rooted in long-standing family cultures, the observed patterns suggest a complex interaction between welfare state—provided services and intergenerational family support in shaping the work—family nexus for younger parents. The authors conclude with a brief discussion of possible consequences of grandmothers' increasing labor force participation for child care arrangements.

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