POLS 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: 1999 World Figure Skating Championships, Work Ethic, Decommodification
17 Jan 2018
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Keynesian welfare state and social spending: variations across countries. Europe: various social democratic parties get into power. Canada: threat of social democratic parties (ccf/ndp) but weak links between party and labour. Us: no political parties represe(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g (cid:449)orkers(cid:859) i(cid:374)terests: one influential study done comparing welfare state regime was: Gosta esping-andersen"s worlds of welfare capitalism (1990) and (1999) Universalist: denmark, norway, sweden, finland, netherlands (and, to a degree, the united kingdom) Residual: australia, canada, new zealand, united states (and, to a degree, the united kingdom) Social insurance: austria, belgium, france, germany, italy, japan. State = first line of support; high level of benefits. The social democratic world is comprised of the five nations whose social insurance programs are most universalistic in coverage and homogeneous in benefit level. The liberal world includes the five countries most marked by means testing and by private (as opposed to public) health and retirement insurance.
