Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

Zusammenfassung This book traces how individuals have fared over ten years in each of the three principal types of welfare state. The authors argue that the social democratic welfare regime of the Netherlands outperforms the corporatist German regime and the liberal US regime on a range of measures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. Setting the Scene: 2. Reasons for welfare; 3. Alternative institutional designs; 4. National embodiments; 5. Background expectations; 6. Testing the theories with panels; Part II. One Standard of Success: External Moral Criteria: 7. Promoting efficiency; 8. Reducing poverty; 9. Promoting equality; 10. Promoting integration; 11. Promoting stability; 12. Promoting autonomy; Part III. Another Standard of Success: Internal Institutional Criteria: 13. The United States as a liberal welfare regime; 14. The Netherlands as a social democratic welfare regime; 15. Germany as a corporatist welfare regime; 16. Conclusions; Appendix tables; References; Index.

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• Authors: Robert E. Goodin, Robert E. (Australian National University Goodin, Robert E. Headey Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.1999
• EAN: 9780521593861
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59386-1
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education