The Three Worlds of Welfare CapitalismFew discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western societies. Gøsta Esping-Andersen, one of the foremost contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced Western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries. He argues that current economic processes, such as those moving toward a postindustrial order, are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to all those working on issues of economic development and postindustrialism. Its audience will include students of sociology, economics, and politics. |
Contents
DeCommodification in Social Policy | 35 |
The Welfare State as a System of Stratification | 55 |
1 Degree of corporatism etatism means testing market | 70 |
State and Market in the Formation of Pension Regimes | 79 |
1 Estimates of the scope of private occupational | 83 |
5 of population 65+ receiving social security pension | 99 |
Distribution Regimes in the Power Structure | 105 |
1 Crosssectional OLS analysis of the social wage | 117 |
13 Crosssectional OLS analysis of the socialist welfare | 137 |
WelfareState and LaborMarket Regimes | 144 |
labor | 151 |
Institutional Accommodation to Full Employment | 162 |
1 The incidence of significant wage pressures in Sweden | 171 |
Three PostIndustrial Employment Trajectories | 191 |
1 Employment growth in traditional and postindustrial | 199 |
WelfareState Regimes in the PostIndustrial Structure | 221 |
4 Crosssectional OLS analysis of etatist privilege 1980 | 123 |
5 Crosssectional OLS analysis of corporatist social | 124 |