Welfare-State Regress in Western Europe
Politics, Institutions, Globalization, and Europeanization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7635357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter Korpi (Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 589-609 |
| Publication date | 2003-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.095943 |
| OpenAlex | W2161321552 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 100 |
| References cited | 72 |
The “new-politics” perspective derives welfare state retrenchment from postindustrial changes generating budget deficits and government attempts to benefit cuts, attempts largely resisted by powerful new groups of welfare-state clients. Comparative studies based on social expenditures show little or no role of class-based parties in the retrenchment process. In the power-resources perspective, focusing on the role of distributive conflicts between major interest groups, the post-war European welfare state included full employment in the “Keynesian welfare state,” based on a social contract markedly differing from the one in the United States. The return of mass unemployment in Europe constitutes a major welfare state regress and generates government budget deficits. Analyses based on social citizenship rights indicate major retrenchment in some countries, with political parties and welfare state institutions playing significant roles. The return of mass unemployment and cuts in social rights appear as a reworking of the European postwar social contract
Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Retrenchment · Social policy · State (computer science · Unemployment · Welfare state · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Repoliticization of the Welfare State
Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance
Transboundary Politics
The re-politicization of the welfare state after the global financial crisis
Public Attitudes towards Family Policies in Europe
European Welfare States Beyond Neoliberalism
Unequal Europe
A Race to the Bottom?
The Future of the Welfare State
Social Justice and the Welfare State
Globalization and the welfare state
Gouverner (par) les finances publiques
Partisanship and personal bankruptcy policy in the European Union
Gendered employment trajectories and later life health in liberal regime countries
The Politics of Children's Health Insurance Policy
One Nation, Underprivileged
The Goldilocks effect
Unequal views of inequality
How Sociology Lost Public Opinion
Exploring split shifts in Swedish elderly care
Affective and calculative solidarity
Deconstruction of the Welfare State
Welfare state attitudes and economic integration in the European Union, 1992–2002
A General Discontent Disentangled
Social Integration and Right-Wing Populist Voting in Germany
Understanding the social organisation of maternity care systems
Marx’ or the Market? Intra-party Power and Social Democratic Welfare State Retrenchment
Welfare-Ideological Change in Scandinavia
Klasspolitik och "nypolitik" under knapphet och globalisering
Subjective household poverty as a moderator for the association between employment precariousness and mental health across five european welfare state types
Disability and the Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Dependent, Deprived or Deviant? The Case of Single Mothers in Denmark
A Cross‐National Look at How Welfare States Reduce Inequality
One welfare state emerging? Convergence versus divergence in 16 western countries
Home-ownership and asset-based welfare
Coming Together or Drifting Apart? Income Maintenance in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities
Some useful sources
Welfare State Regimes and Reforms
Dismantling the welfare state from the left? Localization of global ideas in the case of Israel’s 1998 Public Housing Law
Labour market deregulation and the decline of labour power in North America and Western Europe
Converging Trends of Social Policy in Europe
Comparative Welfare State Analysis with Survey-Based Benefit
The Matching Problem within Comparative Welfare State Research
The effects of social and political openness on the welfare state in 18 OECD countries
The divergent logics of labour market reforms in times of permanent austerity
The limits of inequality
The welfare state and globalisation
How does economic globalisation affect the welfare state? Focusing on the mediating effect of welfare regimes
Welfare Capitalism in Post-Industrial Times
Free Movement as a Threat for Universal Welfare States
National identity and the political economy of small states
The rise and fall of government spending in affluent democracies, 1971–2008
Exploitation in contemporary societies
Der Wandel von Economic Citizenship im Zuge der europäischen Integration
Die Erklärung der Zustimmung zu familienpolitischen Umverteilungsmaßnahmen – Evidenz für dasWechselspiel von rationalen Erklärungsansätzen und der Bedeutung von Einstellungen zur Familie / The Explanation of Preferences for Family Benefits. Empirical Evidence of the Interplay between Rational Choice and Attitudes towards Family and Children
Welfare states and social mobility
Party to inequality
Fear of Crime Among the Poor in Britain and Sweden
Consequences of income concentration for democratic processes in contemporary Western and comparable societies
Deservingness in the Danish context
Unemployment Insurance Reform – 1991–2006
Labour Market Policy in the United States, Canada and Sweden
The End of the Conservative German Welfare State Model
Welfare state change as a double movement
Crises of the welfare state, resilience, and pessimism of the intellect
Healthcare System Types
When incumbents successfully retrench big and popular social policies
The resistance of the four European worlds of welfare from the birth of the euro
Social welfare support and homicide
Staatliche Umverteilung aus der Perspektive der politischen Ökonomie
Institutionalizing suspicion
Continent of pessimism or continent of realism? A multilevel study into the impact of macro-economic outcomes and political institutions on societal pessimism, European Union 2006–2012
Remapping Inequality in Europe
Disentangling the ‘New Liberal Dilemma’
Always Rational Choice Theory? Lessons from Conventional Economics and Their Relevance and Potential Benefits for Contemporary Sociologists
The Rise of the Penal State
Globalization and healthcare policy
Middle class nation building through immigration
Income inequality in the post-2000 era
Economic inequality and political democracy reconsidered
How Do Social Democrats Legitimize Cutbacks? Welfare Retrenchment to Save the Welfare State
European integration and the political economy of inequality
How Do Europeans Perceive Their Healthcare System? Patterns of Satisfaction and Preference for State Involvement in the Field of Healthcare
Institutions, Structures and Poverty--A Comparative Study of 16 Countries, 1980-2000
Flexible Employment and Inequality in Europe
Will to power? Intra-party conflict in social democratic parties and the choice for neoliberal policies in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain (1980–2010)
The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment
Explaining preferences for redistribution
Female-Female Non-Partner Assault
Marx, Globalization and Alienation
US power and the crisis of social democracy in Europe's second project of integration
The transformation of Industrial Citizenship in the course of European integration
Short versus Long Coalitions
European Integration and Income Inequality
Economic Globalization and the Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1975-2001
A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback
Legality with a Vengeance
The democratic class struggle revisited
Political Parties and the Sociological Imagination
Industrialism and industrial man
Old age in the welfare state
Politics against Markets
Full Employment in a Free Society (Works of William H. Beveridge)
What future for social security?
Challenges and Change
Partisan Competition and Welfare State Retrenchment
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism
States, Markets, Families
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Globalization and the Welfare State
Partisan Politics in the Global Economy
Post‐Industrial Pressures on the Mature Welfare States
Welfare and Work in the Open Economy Volume I
The declining resistance of welfare states to change?
Dismantling the Welfare State?
The Survival of the European Welfare State
Globalization and the Nordic Welfare States
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State
Welfare Regimes and Welfare Opinions
Nordic Welfare States in the European Context
Nordic Social Policy
Shocks to the System
Recasting European Welfare States
The New Politics of the Welfare State
The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform
Welfare and Work in the Open Economy Volume II
The declining resistance of welfare states to change?
Welfare States in Transition
Global Social Policy
Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring
Globalization and the Southern Welfare States
Gender, Equality and Welfare States
Coping With Permanent Austerity Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies
Coping with Permanent Austerity
The Democratic Class Struggle
The Spanish development of Southern European welfare
The Spanish development of Southern European welfare
British General Election Manifestos 1900–1974
Globalization and West European Welfare States
On the Political Economy of Recent Public Sector Development
Changing the Politics of Social Programmes
Globalization and the welfare state
The Over-Educated American
Vice into Virtue? Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe
Harmonization of social policies and social regulation in the European Community
Globalization or Europeanization? Evidence on the European Economy Since 1980
Defrosting’ the French welfare state
Welfare-State Retrenchment Revisited
The New Politics of the Welfare State
The puzzle of Dutch welfare state retrenchment
Beyond Left and Right
Contentious Institutions
The Politics of Justification
Power, Politics, and State Autonomy in the Development of Social Citizenship
The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality
The Over-Educated American
New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
The Great Trough in Unemployment
Unemployment Persistency, Over-education and the Employment Chances of the Less Educated
Modernization, globalization and the welfare state
| Unique citing works | 100 |
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| Citations per year | 4,35 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 99 |