POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Corporatism, Protestantism, Consensus Democracy
19 Aug 2016
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He has a different purpose for classifying regimes. He is not interested in a narrow political definition of a regime, rooted in political institutions. [party system, executive power, electoral rules territorial distribution of power ] His understanding of a regime is more social. He takes it for granted that the regimes of interest to him meet the basic requirements of a liberal democracy (as outlined by siaroff). The regimes of interest to him respect basic political and civic rights, elections are competitive and so on. He is interested in what kinds of social rights various kinds of democratic regimes supply their populations. His question is: what are the political responses to the evolution of capitalism in mature democracies. What frees you from depending on the market in capitalist democracies: welfare programs. He emphasizes three criteria by which to distinguish welfare regimes: Rules of access to welfare programs and restrictions on entitlements.
