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1992 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Age Class ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Welfare State

Models of the Welfare State

2021 ◽  
pp. 786-802
Author(s):  
Philip Manow
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
The West ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
European Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
State Research ◽  
The Welfare State

IN 1990, Gøsta Esping-Andersen published The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, a work which has turned out to be the single most important and decisive contribution to welfare state research in the past thirty to forty years. In essence, Esping-Andersen argued that we can observe systematic variation in the character of the developed welfare states of the West, which he grouped into three distinct welfare state models: a Scandinavian social democratic model, a conservative continental European model, and a liberal Anglo-Saxon model. This chapter provides a short description of Esping-Andersen’s three regimes; introduces a fourth, Southern European model, which will then be described in somewhat more detail; and outlines a historical and genealogical account of the development of all four models. Finally, the chapter briefly expands on the comparative perspective with a short discussion on whether the regime concept or the understanding of distinct welfare models can also be applied to other regions, such as Latin America and Asia.

Book Reviews

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-144
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Historical Responsibility ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Welfare State

E.P. Hennock, The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007)Reviewed by Christopher S. AllenLars Fischer, The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)Reviewed by Eric KurlanderDevin O. Pendas, The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965. Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)Reviewed by Klaus L. BerghahnDonna Harsch, Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)Reviewed by Elizabeth MittmanJeffrey K. Olick, The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (New York: Routledge, 2007)Reviewed by Cora Sol Goldstein

5. Varieties

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Garland
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Government Involvement ◽  
Welfare State Regimes ◽  
The Welfare State

Every developed country has a distinctive welfare state of its own. Welfare states generally rely on the same basic institutions, but these institutions can operate in different ways. Welfare state programmes are government programmes, but while public authority is necessary to establish, fund, and regulate these programmes, the nature of government involvement varies. Three worlds of welfare have been identified: social democratic; conservative; and liberal. ‘Varieties’ describes the welfare state regimes that developed in Sweden, Germany, and the USA, each of which exemplifies one of these ‘worlds’ of welfare. It goes on to consider briefly the welfare regimes beyond the ‘three worlds’ and how Britain’s welfare regime has changed over time.

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