The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism,9780521596398

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

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ISBN13: 9780521596398
ISBN10: 0521596394
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-10-13
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state. Through unique studies of Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, tracking individuals' socio-economic fate over ten years, the authors explore issues of economic growth and efficiency, of poverty and inequality, of social integration and social autonomy. The authors argue that the social democratic welfare regime of the Netherlands outperforms the corporatist German regime and the liberal US regime across all these social and economic objectives.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction
1(20)
Part I: Setting the scene
Reasons for welfare
21(16)
Alternative institutional designs
37(19)
National embodiments
56(31)
Background expectations
87(11)
Testing the theories with panels
98(27)
Part II: One standard of success: external moral criteria
Promoting efficiency
125(27)
Reducing poverty
152(21)
Promoting equality
173(14)
Promoting integration
187(10)
Promoting stability
197(14)
Promoting autonomy
211(29)
Part III: Another standard of success: internal institutional criteria
The United States as a liberal welfare regime
240(6)
The Netherlands as a social democratic welfare regime
246(7)
Germany as a corporatist welfare regime
253(6)
Conclusions
259(6)
Appendix tables 265(52)
References 317(28)
Index 345

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