The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Author Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Country USA
Language English
Publisher Princeton University Press
Publication date
 1990
Pages 248
ISBN 9780069028573

The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism is a book on political theory written by Danish sociologist Gøsta Esping-Andersen, published in 1990. The work is Esping-Andersen's most influential and highly cited work, outlining three main types of welfare states, in which modern developed capitalist nations cluster.[1][2] The work occupies seminal status in the comparative analysis of the welfare states of Western Europe and other advanced capitalist economies.[3] The work called into question well-established ways of thinking about differences among welfare states in advanced capitalist democracies.[4] At the time of writing this book, Gsta Esping-Andersen was Professor at the European University Institute, Florence.

Typology of welfare capitalism

In The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Esping-Andersen outlines a typology of welfare capitalism in an attempt to classify contemporary Western welfare states as belonging to one of three "worlds of welfare capitalism."[5] The three types are characterised by a specific labour market regime and also by a specific post‐industrial employment trajectory.[6]

The three types are named:

Since its publication the typology has been widely used in academic research and theory,[7] and has generated much debate on the subject of the nature of the welfare state.[8] The desirability of the work's approach has been stated by various comparative welfare state scholars.[9]

In the book Esping-Andersen criticized earlier theoretical models of the welfare state as "inadequate", arguing that their analysis relied too heavily upon the misleading comparison of aggregate welfare state expenditure,[10] and also argued that public expenditure should no longer be a measure of comparison and that we should seek to replace it with other measures.[11] in the place of expenditure, Esping-Andersen built his typology on a rich database of detailed programme characteristics.[12]

East Asia

While using three categories in his typology, the author notes that East Asia may not strictly fit in a single category but may be seen as a hybrid of liberal and conservative models.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (1990). The three worlds of welfare capitalism. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780069028573.
  2. ↑ Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (Fall 1990). "The three political economies of the welfare state". International Journal of Sociology (M.E. Sharpe, Inc. via JSTOR) 20 (3): 92–123. JSTOR 20630041.
  3. ↑ Scruggs, Lyle A., and James P. Allan. "Social stratification and welfare regimes for the twenty-first Century: Revisiting the three worlds of welfare capitalism." World Politics 60, no. 04 (2008): 642-664.
  4. ↑ Ragin, Charles. "A qualitative comparative analysis of pension systems." The comparative political economy of the welfare state (1994): 320-45.
  5. ↑ Svallfors, Stefan. "Worlds of welfare and attitudes to redistribution: A comparison of eight western nations." European Sociological Review 13, no. 3 (1997): 283-304.
  6. ↑ Kloosterman, Robert C. "Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism? The welfare state and the post‐industrial trajectory in the Netherlands after 1980." West European Politics 17, no. 4 (1994): 166-189.
  7. ↑ Bambra, Clare. "Going beyond The three worlds of welfare capitalism: regime theory and public health research." Journal of epidemiology and community health 61, no. 12 (2007): 1098-1102.
  8. ↑ Bambra, Clare. "The worlds of welfare: illusory and gender blind?." Social Policy and Society 3, no. 03 (2004): 201-211.
  9. ↑ Allan, James P., and Lyle Scruggs. "Political partisanship and welfare state reform in advanced industrial societies." American Journal of Political Science 48, no. 3 (2004): 496-512.
  10. ↑ Bambra, Clare. "Worlds of welfare and the health care discrepancy." Social Policy and Society 4, no. 01 (2005): 31-41.
  11. ↑ Castles, Francis G. "Is expenditure enough? On the nature of the dependent variable in comparative public policy analysis." Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 32, no. 3 (1994): 349-363.
  12. ↑ Castles, Francis G. "Developing new measures of welfare state change and reform." European Journal of Political Research 41, no. 5 (2002): 613-641.
  13. ↑ Lee, Yih‐Jiunn, and Yeun‐wen Ku. "East Asian welfare regimes: testing the hypothesis of the developmental welfare state." Social Policy & Administration 41, no. 2 (2007): 197-212.
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