POLI 212 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: European Economic Community, European Political Party, Labour Party (Uk)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 212
• Professor: Anthony Imbrogno

Document Summary

Social welfare spending: extensively developed in europe income replacement programs and job training, stipends, education subsidies, usa only exists in skeletal form. Goal of welfare programs is to make peoples survival independent of action of market forces. Redistribution achieved through taxes and transfer payments. E. g. retirement, disability, health care payments: redistributive capacity of the state captures the degree to which taxes and transfer payments lift people out of poverty. Union participation: most european countries have a highly unionized workforce. % of workers who are members of unions is declining in industrialized democracies: union density = % of workers who are members of unions. Union density is 3x higher in europe than usa. Social democratic parties: enjoy a massive presence in european legislatures, total absence of socialist parties in usa congress. Identity politics (creed and race vs class: social class is more important in europe than usa, europe: Identity of a european is very connected to one"s belonging in the.