The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries

Becker, Uwe

doi:10.26530/oapen_391373

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“…However, there has been a huge controversy over this relationship. There have been arguments that globalization puts downward pressure on social spending (Glatzer & Rueschemeyer, 2005), in contrast to the counter arguments that globalization and the welfare state have mutually reinforcing relationships (Becker, 2011;Cameron, 1978;Katzenstein, 1985;Rieger & Leibfried, 2003;Walter, 2010). Given the empirical evidence of the latter type of argument (Kersbergen & Vis, 2014), it is expected that more trade openness leads to more social spending.…”

Section: Journal Of Public Administration and Governancementioning

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Political Regimes, Path Dependence, and the South Korean Welfare State

2020

JPAG

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Contrary to common belief that political actors can fundamentally shape the welfare state, any political regimes with distinct positions on welfare policies are usually put under public scrutiny, which makes it risky for them to simply follow their traditional beliefs without taking into account public reactions over welfare-related decision making. In terms of the welfare state development, South Korea is an interesting example in the sense that parties from different political backgrounds have had the opportunity to run the country for almost the same amount of time, since progressives came to power for the first time in modern Korean history. Based on data ranging from 1998 to 2016, the relationship between the welfare state and political/socioeconomic conditions is evaluated alongside policy implications, revealing the path dependence of the South Korean welfare development. The increase in social spending in South Korea was rather due to natural phenomena such as population aging, than any political actors’ approaches to the welfare state.

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Section: Journal Of Public Administration and Governancementioning

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Political Regimes, Path Dependence, and the South Korean Welfare State

2020

JPAG

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Institutional complementarity, economic performance and governance in the post-communist world

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Mendelski

2013

Comp Eur Polit

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Positioning the Nordic Countries in European Union Environmental Policy

Sääksjärvi

2020

The Journal of Environment & Development

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The influence of the Nordic countries on the European Union’s (EU's) policy processes has been researched from various angles, but there is a lack of research that comprehensively examines all policy positions advanced by Nordic actors within a given policy context. This article introduces a new design for studying policy positions and influence in the EU and examines the phenomenon from a multilevel perspective using an original data set compiled in connection to three directives: the Floods Directive on the assessment and management of flood risks, the Environmental Liability Directive, and the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive. The analysis reveals that the Nordic countries follow a certain pattern of influencing EU policy that deviates from other states participating in the consultations. Nordic governmental actors exert a strong technical but weak directional influence in the chosen context but are, overall, more successful than Nordic organizational actors at influencing the policy process.

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The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries

Abstract: A m s t e r d a m U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s the changing political economies of small west european countries

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Political Regimes, Path Dependence, and the South Korean Welfare State

Political Regimes, Path Dependence, and the South Korean Welfare State

Institutional complementarity, economic performance and governance in the post-communist world

Positioning the Nordic Countries in European Union Environmental Policy

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