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Yoon, Jungkeun. "Globalization and the Welfare State in Developing Countries." Business and Politics 11, no. 2 (2009): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1469-3569.1205.

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Most of the existing studies of the welfare state have dealt with OECD countries. Moreover, these studies have focused on government partisanship (left versus right), or institutional features under democracy, as primary causal variables. By providing four primary causal mechanisms (the power of popularly based parties, labor strength, democracy, and political instability) that are different from those of OECD countries, I answer the question of whether and why the efficiency or compensation hypothesis holds for developing countries. I show that either the efficiency or compensation thesis can

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Yörük, Erdem, İbrahim Öker, and Gabriela Ramalho Tafoya. "The four global worlds of welfare capitalism: Institutional, neoliberal, populist and residual welfare state regimes." Journal of European Social Policy 32, no. 2 (2022): 119–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09589287211050520.

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What welfare state regimes are observed when the analysis is extended globally, empirically and theoretically? We introduce a novel perspective into the ‘welfare state regimes analyses’ – a perspective that brings developed and developing countries together and, as such, broadens the geographical, empirical and theoretical scope of the ‘welfare modelling business’. The expanding welfare regimes literature has suffered from several drawbacks: (i) it is radically slanted towards organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD) countries, (ii) the literature on non-OECD countries doe

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NOËL, ALAIN. "The Politics of Minimum Income Protection in OECD Countries." Journal of Social Policy 48, no. 2 (2018): 227–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279418000351.

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AbstractMinimum income protection (MIP) determines the disposable income a person obtains when she has no market or social insurance income, few assets and no family support. This last-recourse income, usually social assistance benefits plus associated transfers, constitutes a significant indicator of a country's commitment to social justice. Yet, we know little about the politics of MIP, in part because welfare state scholars have focused on more encompassing social insurance programmes, and in part because of a lack of good comparative data. This article takes the measure of MIP adequacy in

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Xu, Shiran. "European Inspirations on Chinese Welfare State Development: A Comparative Analysis." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 79, no. 1 (2025): 105–11. https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/2025.lc19683.

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The effectiveness and the applicability of European welfare policy, especially those implemented by the early welfare states of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have been claimed as the sources of their leading prosperity. Developing countries that underwent reforms and socio-economic transitions hold incentives and materialistic basis to initiate welfare programs similar to Europes. Research significance of this paper lies within the comparative welfare analysis between China, a typical developing country that experienced drastic reforms, and developed OECD E

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KWONHYEOKYONG and 신혜현. "Economic Constraints, Partisan Hegemony, and the Welfare State in OECD Countries." Korean Political Science Review 41, no. 3 (2007): 121–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18854/kpsr.2007.41.3.006.

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Scruggs, Lyle, and James Allan. "Welfare-state decommodification in 18 OECD countries: a replication and revision." Journal of European Social Policy 16, no. 1 (2006): 55–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928706059833.

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Boreham, Paul, Richard Hall, and Martin Leet. "Labour and Citizenship: The Development of Welfare State Regimes." Journal of Public Policy 16, no. 2 (1996): 203–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x00007364.

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ABSTRACTThis paper is concerned with the political determinants of the significantly different rates of welfare expenditure which characterise advanced capitalist countries. The research concentrates on the connections between the organization and mobilization of a key political actor pursing social wage benefits – the labour movement – and different levels across nations of welfare provision, including expenditure on health, social security consumption expenditure and social security transfers. The paper uses disaggregated, pooled time series data on welfare provision in 15 OECD countries, 19

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Halla, Martin, Mario Lackner, and Johann Scharler. "Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 118, no. 2 (2015): 292–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12144.

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Jackson, Aaron L., David L. Ortmeyer, and Michael A. Quinn. "Are immigrants really attracted to the welfare state? Evidence from OECD countries." International Economics and Economic Policy 10, no. 4 (2012): 491–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10368-012-0219-2.

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LYNCH, JULIA. "The Age-Orientation of Social Policy Regimes in OECD Countries." Journal of Social Policy 30, no. 3 (2001): 411–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279401006365.

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This article presents a series of measures of the extent to which social policies in twenty-one OECD countries are oriented towards the support of elderly (over 65 or in formal retirement) and non-elderly (under 65 and not retired) population groups. Employing breakdowns by age in spending on social insurance, education and health, tax expenditures on welfare substituting goods, and housing policy outcomes, this article shows that countries tend to demonstrate a consistent age-orientation across a variety of policy areas and instruments. After correcting for the demographic structure of the po

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Roumpakis, Antonios. "Revisiting Global Welfare Regimes: Gender, (In)formal Employment and Care." Social Policy and Society 19, no. 4 (2020): 677–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746420000342.

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Gender critiques of comparative welfare state research have so far predominantly focused on OECD countries but less so in countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Existing comparative social policy research in these regions often cites the importance of informal networks and family for social protection but less attention is paid into gender relations and their importance for the social reproduction of these welfare regimes. The article comparatively analyses gender differences in the sphere of production (captured by the gender gap in formal and informal employment) and social reprodu

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Park, Brandon Beomseob, and Jungsub Shin. "Do the welfare benefits weaken the economic vote? A cross-national analysis of the welfare state and economic voting." International Political Science Review 40, no. 1 (2017): 108–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192512117716169.

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Comparative economic voting studies have found great instability in economic voting across countries and over time. In explaining this instability, we highlight the role of welfare systems because strong welfare protection attenuates voters’ incentives to base their vote on government economic performance. By analyzing 174 legislature elections in 31 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries from 1980 to 2010 and by taking into account clarity of responsibility, we find that welfare protection weakens the linkage between macroeconomic outcomes and incumbent electo

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Huh, Taewook, Yunyoung Kim, and Jiyoung Kim. "Towards a Green State: A Comparative Study on OECD Countries through Fuzzy-Set Analysis." Sustainability 10, no. 9 (2018): 3181. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10093181.

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This study aims to develop an empirical measurement framework of the green state and compare twenty-four OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries’ cases through the fuzzy-set multiple conjunctural analysis and the ideal type analysis. Based on the analysis model of the outcome set (Sustainable Development Goal Index) and the causal sets of seven variables on the four green state categories (‘ecological authoritarian state’, ‘ecological modern state’, ‘ecological democracy state’, and ‘ecological welfare state’), this study reveals the following results. Among OECD

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Lauterbach, Ann S., Tobias Tober, Florian Kunze, and Marius R. Busemeyer. "Can welfare states buffer technostress? Income and technostress in the context of various OECD countries." PLOS ONE 18, no. 12 (2023): e0295229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295229.

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Many workers are experiencing the downsides of being exposed to an overload of information and communication technology (ICT), highlighting the need for resources to cope with the resulting technostress. This article offers a novel cross-level perspective on technostress by examining how the context of the welfare state influences the relationship between income and technostress. Showing that individuals with higher income experience less technostress, this study argues that the welfare state represents an additional coping resource, in particular in the form of unemployment benefits. Since un

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Hennessy, Peter, and Thierry Warin. "One Welfare State for Europe: A Costly Utopia?" Global Economy Journal 4, no. 2 (2004): 1850020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1027.

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This paper addresses the question of the social policy harmonization in the European Union. In adopting a common monetary policy, Europe is faced with structural and fiscal concerns, as national growth levels differ. Another possible factor in output shocks are the levels of various social expenditures in the member countries. OECD data on the level of social program expenditures in four EU countries will be compared to fluctuations in GDP growth to identify existing relationships. Significant relationships between independent social expenditure policy and GDP growth shocks suggest structural

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Kushi, Sidita, and Ian P. McManus. "Gender, crisis and the welfare state: Female labor market outcomes across OECD countries." Comparative European Politics 16, no. 3 (2018): 434–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/cep.2016.21.

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Western, Bruce. "Decommodification and the Transformation of Capitalism: welfare state development in seventeen OECD countries." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 25, no. 2 (1989): 200–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/144078338902500203.

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Clayton, Richard, and Jonas Pontusson. "Welfare-State Retrenchment Revisited: Entitlement Cuts, Public Sector Restructuring, and Inegalitarian Trends in Advanced Capitalist Societies." World Politics 51, no. 1 (1998): 67–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0043887100007796.

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In recent years it has become commonplace for comparativists to emphasize the resilience of welfare states in advanced capitalist societies and the failure of neoliberal efforts to dismantle the welfare state. Challenging some tenets of the resilience thesis, this article seeks to broaden the discussion of welfare-state retrenchment. The authors argue that a sharp deceleration of social spending has occurred in most OECD countries since 1980, that welfare states have failed to offset the rise of market-generated inequality and insecurity, and that welfare programs have become less universalist

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WAGSCHAL, UWE, and GEORG WENZELBURGER. "Roads to Success: Budget Consolidations in OECD Countries." Journal of Public Policy 28, no. 3 (2008): 309–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x08000901.

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ABSTRACTDuring the 1990s, some OECD countries succeeded in reducing their budget deficits. The average public debt ratio fell from more than 70 per cent of GDP in 1996 to about 63 per cent of GDP in 2001. Up to now, researchers have mainly focused on the economic effects of these consolidation efforts. This paper answers another question: How can balanced budgets be achieved? By means of a detailed review of nine budget consolidations, the study identifies different roads to successful fiscal adjustments, starting with a critical review of the definition of budget consolidation. We find a patt

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BARBOSA, PEDRO. "The developmental welfare state in South Korea under globalization." Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 44, no. 1 (2024): 145–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572024-3412.

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ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the expansion of social policies in South Korea during the context of globalization, by linking two theoretical approaches: social investment and the New Developmental State. Applying the case study method, I endorse the hypothesis of complementarily between the welfare state and the developmental state. The article shows that between the 1990s and the 2010s, South Korea expanded all sectors of social policies analyzed. Beyond the expansion of passive policies, active policies (including education) were reshaped in an integrated manner with the industrial policy to

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Iversen, Torben, and Thomas R. Cusack. "The Causes of Welfare State Expansion: Deindustrialization or Globalization?" World Politics 52, no. 3 (2000): 313–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0043887100016567.

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An influential line of argument holds that globalization causes economic uncertainty and spurs popular demands for compensatory welfare state spending. This article argues that the relationship between globalization and welfare state expansion is spurious and that the engine of welfare state expansion since the 1960s has been deindustrialization. Based on cross-sectional-time-series data for fifteen OECD countries, the authors show that there is no relationship between globalization and the level of labor-market risks (in terms of employment and wages), whereas the uncertainty and dislocations

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Park, Yeonjin, Hochul Shin, and Dahee Park. "South Korea’s National Animal Welfare Policies in Comparison to Legal Frameworks and Systems in Other Countries." Animals 15, no. 9 (2025): 1224. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15091224.

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It is essential to establish a normative framework that ensures the harmonious coexistence of humans and animals from legal and institutional perspectives. This study classifies and compares animal welfare policies in welfare states, identifying distinct policy types across different countries. Using fuzzy set ideal type analysis, this study examines seven OECD countries: Austria, Denmark, Germany, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (USA). These countries are consistent with Esping-Andersen’s three welfare state models and actively implement animal welfare poli

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Çakmakoğlu, Dilara, and Ali Tarkan Çavuşoğlu. "Globalisation and the welfare state: An empirical analysis of public social expenditures in OECD countries." Business & Management Studies: An International Journal 13, no. 2 (2025): 747–61. https://doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v13i2.2579.

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This study aims to empirically examine the effects of different dimensions of globalisation—general, economic, trade, and financial—on public social expenditures in 17 OECD countries from 2008 to 2019. Emphasis is placed on the economic dimension of globalisation, which is further decomposed into trade and financial subcomponents. This focus is motivated by the fact that economic globalisation encapsulates the most direct market pressures and measurable transmission channels affecting welfare policy. The analysis employs random-effects panel data regressions to assess these relationships while

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Wagle, Udaya R. "The Heterogeneity Politics of the Welfare State: Changing Population Heterogeneity and Welfare State Policies in High-Income OECD Countries, 1980-2005." Politics & Policy 41, no. 6 (2013): 947–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/polp.12053.

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Lyttkens, Carl Hampus, Terkel Christiansen, Unto Häkkinen, Oddvar Kaarboe, Matt Sutton, and Anna Welander. "The core of the Nordic health care system is not empty." Nordic Journal of Health Economics 4, no. 1 (2016): 7–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/njhe.2848.

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The Nordic countries are well-known for their welfare states. A very important feature of the welfare state is that it aims at easy and equal access to adequate health care for the entire population. For many years, the Nordic systems were automatically viewed as very similar, and they were placed in the same group when the OECD classified health care systems around the world. However, close inspection soon reveals that there are important differences between the health care systems of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Consequently, it is perhaps no surprise that the Nordic countri

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Ilmakunnas, Pekka, and Vesa Kanniainen. "Entrepreneurship, Economic Risks, and Risk Insurance in the Welfare State: Results with OECD Data 1978±93." German Economic Review 2, no. 3 (2001): 195–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0475.00034.

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Abstract We find evidence in the OECD cross-country data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD data. Weak evidence is found for the proposition that the rate of entrepreneurship is related to the

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Crepaz, Markus M. L. "Veto Players, Globalization and the Redistributive Capacity of the State: A Panel Study of 15 OECD Countries." Journal of Public Policy 21, no. 1 (2001): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x01001015.

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Globalization is said to restrict severely the state's capacity to fulfill its welfare function in advanced industrial societies. This paper tests empirically the redistributive capacity of the state operationalized as the difference in percent of households who live below 50% of the median income in their respective country before taxes and transfers and after taxes and transfers, based on the latest Luxembourg Income Study data. Besides globalization, specific sets of domestic political institutions predictably and systematically affect the redistributive capacity of the state: what is terme

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Takao, Yasuo. "Welfare State Retrenchment – The Case of Japan." Journal of Public Policy 19, no. 3 (1999): 265–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x99000707.

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The purpose of this article is to examine the implications for welfare state retrenchment of central-local financial relations. In the post-war period, welfare state expansion has been a dominant theme in the development of central-local government relations in advanced industrial democracies. By the 1980s, however, nearly all OECD member countries had resorted to deficit financing as stagnant tax revenues combined with political pressure for increased public services. Faced with the urgent necessity of fiscal reconstruction, conservatives in advanced industrial democracies have favoured cutti

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Salas-Velasco, Manuel. "Competitiveness and production efficiency across OECD countries." Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal 29, no. 2 (2019): 160–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cr-07-2017-0043.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper was to measure the efficiency of resource utilization across OECD countries aiming to verify that higher levels of competitiveness enhance the production capacity – the maximum possible output of an economy in a given period with the available resources.Design/methodology/approachThe author used a two-stage procedure to first estimate the cross-sectional efficiency scores of 18 OECD economies by data envelopment analysis, and then to assess the impact of contextual variables on efficiency running regressions in the second-stage analysis. In particular, in the s

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Jacques, Olivier, and Alain Noël. "Welfare state decommodification and population health." PLOS ONE 17, no. 8 (2022): e0272698. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272698.

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A generous welfare state decommodifies social relations and frees citizens from relying excessively on markets. We argue that decommodification is associated with population health in two ways: directly, as it provides better social protection to households and indirectly, as it mitigates health-damaging labour market polarization and reduces the incidence of labour market risks. Using time-series cross-sectional quantitative analysis for 21 OECD countries from 1971 to 2010, we observe a negative relationship between decommodification and the age-standardized death rate. We then analyze three

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Hossain, Md Belal, Michael A. Long, and Paul B. Stretesky. "Welfare State Spending, Income Inequality and Food Insecurity in Affluent Nations: A Cross-National Examination of OECD Countries." Sustainability 13, no. 1 (2020): 324. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010324.

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Few studies examine the distribution of food insecurity in advanced capitalist nations. This research investigates cross-national food insecurity in the world’s largest economies by estimating the impact of welfare spending and income inequality on food availability (measured by the FAO’s Dietary Energy and Protein Supply indicators) and food accessibility (measured by the Food Insecurity Experience Scale) in 36 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries between the years of 2000 and 2018. Using a series of regression models on panel and cross-sectional data this re

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Johnson, Paul. "Social Policy in Europe in the Twentieth Century." Contemporary European History 2, no. 2 (1993): 197–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777300000424.

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The 1980s proved to be a tough decade for European welfare states. The post-war ‘welfare consensus’, which perhaps had never been quite so strong or coherent as many contemporary historians and commentators had assumed, was finally laid to rest. The five great spectres identified by Beveridge want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness had not been humbled by public welfare provision despite its ever growing scale and cost. At the beginning of the 1980s the OECD published a report on The Welfare State in Crisis which pointed out that as welfare state expenditure had roughly doubled as a per

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Koster, Ferry. "The effects of social and political openness on the welfare state in 18 OECD countries." International Journal of Social Welfare 17, no. 4 (2008): 291–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2008.00552.x.

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KOCH, MAX, and MARTIN FRITZ. "Building the Eco-social State: Do Welfare Regimes Matter?" Journal of Social Policy 43, no. 4 (2014): 679–703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004727941400035x.

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AbstractAuthors such as Dryzek, Gough and Meadowcroft have indicated that social-democratic welfare states could be in a better position to deal with development of the ‘green’ or ‘eco’ state, and the intersection of social and environmental policies, than conservative or liberal welfare regimes (synergy hypothesis). However, this hypothesis has as yet not been examined in comparative empirical research. Based on comparative empirical data from EUROSTAT, the World Bank, the OECD, the Global Footprint Network and the International Social Survey Programme, we are carrying out two research operat

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Kyoung Don, Park. "The Efficiency in Welfare Expenditure and Economic Growth." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 26, no. 3 (2011): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps26308.

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This paper analyzes the various arguments that support or oppose expansion in social welfare spending. A critical concern is the fear that as welfare expenditure increases, at some point, economic development will decrease. However, increased welfare investment is essential for achieving a welfare state to ensure the optimal growth of the economy and social welfare. OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries with a particular welfare regime that efficiently invests welfare spending are regarded as a reference for Korea. In consideration of the environmental factors

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Ebbinghaus, Bernhard. "Case selection in medium-n comparative welfare state analysis." Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 9, no. 2 (2011): 15–20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.930665.

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Comparative welfare state research has been relying on medium-N analyses to test macro-typologies of institutional configurations. Most prominently, Gosta Esping-Andersen's Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990) led to a plethora of research on the merits of fitting real welfare states across Europe and beyond into his three ideal-type categories. A "regime" approach is useful in comparative analyses of welfare states in order to conceptualize distinct typologies in which to classify empirical similarities and differences (Lange and Meadwell 1991). While ideal-type regimes should be theoret

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Burgoon, Brian. "Globalization and Welfare Compensation: Disentangling the Ties that Bind." International Organization 55, no. 3 (2001): 509–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/00208180152507542.

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Three perspectives dominate debate over the relationship between globalization and the welfare state in industrialized countries: that globalization constrains the welfare that hitherto legitimated openness, that globalization still sparks demands for welfare while opening few forces to flee or fight against it, and that openness has little effect on welfare. A closer look at the “globalization” and “welfare” aggregates on which most scholars focus, however, reveals varying politics connecting different elements of globalization and welfare that may help reconcile this debate. First, compared

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Hay, Colin. "Too Important to Leave to the Economists? The Political Economy of Welfare Retrenchment." Social Policy and Society 4, no. 2 (2005): 197–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746404002313.

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The future of the welfare state in advanced liberal democracies is increasingly judged in economic terms. For, in an era of economic globalisation and heightened competition between economies, it is invariably suggested that the welfare state must prove its value in an exhaustive competitive audit if it is not to reveal itself an indulgent luxury and an unsustainable burden on competitiveness. Given the influence of such assumptions among policy-makers, it is unremarkable that social policy goals are increasingly subordinated to perceived economic imperatives. The critical dissection of the pr

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Rothstein, Bo, Marcus Samanni, and Jan Teorell. "Explaining the welfare state: power resources vs. the Quality of Government." European Political Science Review 4, no. 1 (2011): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755773911000051.

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The hitherto most successful theory explaining why similar industrialized market economies have developed such varying systems for social protection is the Power Resource Theory (PRT), according to which the generosity of the welfare state is a function of working class mobilization. In this paper, we argue that there is an under-theorized link in the micro-foundations for PRT, namely why wage earners trying to cope with social risks and demand for redistribution would turn to the state for a solution. Our approach, the Quality of Government (QoG) theory, stresses the importance of trustworthy

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STARKE, PETER, ALEXANDRA KAASCH, and FRANCA VAN HOOREN. "Political Parties and Social Policy Responses to Global Economic Crises: Constrained Partisanship in Mature Welfare States." Journal of Social Policy 43, no. 2 (2014): 225–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279413000986.

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AbstractBased on empirical findings from a comparative study on welfare state responses to the four major economic shocks (the 1970s oil shocks, the early 1990s recession, the 2008 financial crisis) in four OECD countries, this article demonstrates that, in contrast to conventional wisdom, policy responses to global economic crises vary significantly across countries. What explains the cross-national and within-case variation in responses to crises? We discuss several potential causes of this pattern and argue that political parties and the party composition of governments can play a key role

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Karmann, Anna. "A Gendered Double Movement? Income Security and Family Policy Dynamics Over Three Decades." Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft 33, no. 2-2024 (2024): 23–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v33i2.03.

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Over the past decades, social policy in OECD countries has experienced significant shifts in family and income security policies. This article investigates these changes from a feminist political economy perspective and argues how they give rise to a gendered double movement. The double movement results from increased (re)commodification combined with rising individualisation, which has a dual effect: it releases women from familial duties while simultaneously commodifying female labour. By integrating the concepts of familisation, individualisation, decommodification and (re)commodification,

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Meijer, Mathias. "Befolkningensaldringens overvurderede konsekvenser: Ældrebyrden til eftersyn." Dansk Sociologi 16, no. 1 (2005): 35–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v16i1.552.

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Mathias Meijer: Overselling the burden of the ageing population.   This article challenges the apocalyptic discourse of population ageing that maintains that the ageing of the Danish population is one of the greatest challenges to the welfare state making it unsustainable without considerable welfare reforms. By relating the future demographic projections to historical and international trends, the article shows that population ageing is not a new phenomenon, and that Denmark is one of countries with the slowest rate of ageing in the OECD. Contrary to most other Western countries,

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Noël, Alain. "Is social investment inimical to the poor?" Socio-Economic Review 18, no. 3 (2018): 857–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwy038.

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Abstract In the last two decades, the social investment strategy has been the main approach to welfare state reform. Concretely, two spending programs have dominated the agenda: the expansion of active labor market programs and the development of childcare services. Many authors have suspected, however, that these social investments were realized at the expense of income protection for the poor. This article assesses this potential trade-off with time-series cross-sectional models of the determinants of active labor market policies expenditures, childcare spending and the adequacy of minimum i

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AKBAKAY, Zeki. "Economic Globalization, Taxation and Public Expenditures: Evidence From OECD Countries." Yönetim ve Ekonomi Dergisi 31, no. 1 (2024): 203–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18657/yonveek.1240887.

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Globalization shapes the fiscal policies of countries, leading to changes in the structure of taxation and public expenditures. According to the theory of international tax competition, as globalization increases, countries use their tax policies to attract more mobile factors, resulting in tax competition. This competition causes capital tax rates to decrease and labor tax rates to increase, which is known as the efficiency effect of globalization. On the other hand, governments expand the welfare state to compensate for the increased economic risks resulting from globalization. This is known

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Sarfati, Hedva. "Interaction between Labour Market and Social Protection Systems: Policy Implications and Challenges for the Social Partners." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 19, Issue 2 (2003): 253–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2003014.

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Abstract: This article highlights the major shifts that have taken place in the labour market and the broader socio-economic context over the past three decades in the OECD countries, bringing about major changes in the welfare state to ensure its sustainability. These ongoing reforms challenge a broad range of acquired rights and raise major policy issues for decision-makers and the social partners. They also provoke adverse effects and therefore require a broad social dialogue on the most effective policy mix. There are major obstacles to achieving consensus, but some countries have succeede

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Forslund, Maria. "The state of dying. Mortality in a comparative perspective – the interplay between cash and care*." European Journal of Social Security 19, no. 1 (2017): 4–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1388262717699446.

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the interplay between cash and care in the welfare state by analysing a specific mortality cause, cerebrovascular disease, in relation to health care and sickness benefits. Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Health Statistics and the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset2 (CWED2) are pooled for the time period 1980–2011. Fourteen countries are analysed by Prais-Winsten regression with panel correct standard errors, using fixed effect models. The results show that health care and sickness benefits have a combine

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Collins, Micheál L. "Private Pensions and the Gender Distribution of Fiscal Welfare." Social Policy and Society 19, no. 3 (2020): 500–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746420000111.

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The provision of taxation relief to support pension savings has become a large and expensive aspect of the welfare state in many countries. Among OECD member states this exceeds $200 billion in revenue forgone each year. Previous research has consistently found this fiscal welfare to have pronounced regressive distributive outcomes. However, little is known about the gendered impact of these fiscal welfare supports, a void this article addresses. Using data for Ireland the article finds that the current structure of fiscal welfare supports notably favours males over females. Nominal contributi

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FARNSWORTH, KEVIN. "Bringing Corporate Welfare In." Journal of Social Policy 42, no. 1 (2012): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279412000761.

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AbstractOne of the consequences of the post-2008 global economic crisis is that it has thrust into the public spotlight the issue of state provision for corporations, putting paid to the myth that capitalism and businesses could ultimately be more profitable, more efficient and more competitive without state interference and direct support. The reality is that corporations of every size and within every sector depend on government support in some way. Hence, while the measures taken by governments in response to the global crisis have been exceptional in their scale, they are not exceptional b

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Grosshans, Hans-Peter. "Protestantism and the Social Responsibility of the State." Distinctio 3, no. 2 (2025): 53–71. https://doi.org/10.56550/d.3.2.2.

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The article analyses the religious basis of the different attitudes towards the modern welfare state and state social assistance systems in countries that have been influenced by different Christian denominations, especially Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed (Calvinist, Presbyterian) Christianity. The article looks at early forms of poor relief in Lutheran cities at the beginning of the Reformation and their theological basis in Martin Luther’s writings. The article then looks at the different ways in which social assistance to the poor was organised in areas under Reformed influence and in Cath

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Jakobsen, Vibeke, and Peder J. Pedersen. "Poverty risk among older immigrants in a scandinavian welfare state." European Journal of Social Security 19, no. 3 (2017): 242–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1388262717725937.

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The focus of this paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees aged 60 years and older coming to Denmark from countries outside of the OECD, with an emphasis on immigrants who came as guest workers before 1974, as refugees and as family members and marriage partners (tied movers) of the individuals coming as guest workers and as refugees. A large proportion of people in this group were fairly young at the time of their arrival in Denmark. Guest workers who came before 1974 and refugees and tied movers who arrived in the 1970s and 1980s are now either close to or above the age of 60, with

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