Welfare Regime Analysis
Welfare regime analysis classifies welfare states not by how much they spend but by the qualitative logic of how they distribute welfare, following Gosta Esping-Andersen's 1990 The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Its two organizing concepts are decommodification — the degree to which people can sustain a livelihood independent of the market — and stratification — the patterns of social inequality that welfare arrangements reproduce or alter. On these dimensions Esping-Andersen identified three clustered regime types: the liberal, the conservative-corporatist, and the social-democratic. His 1999 sequel extended the framework to the family and the postindustrial service economy, and a large critical literature has since debated additional types.
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- Esping-Andersen, G. (1990). The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton University Press. · ISBN 9780691028576
- Esping-Andersen, G. (1999). Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford University Press. · ISBN 9780198742005
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