Worlds, Families, Regimes: Country Clusters in European and OECD Area Public Policy

Castles, Francis G.; Obinger, Herbert

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“…Based on the notion of "decommodification" (roughly, the degree to which welfare services are free from the influence of the market) and the kind of social stratification fostered by social policies, the typology originally postulated three basic welfare models: the liberal (or market-oriented) welfare states characteristic of the Anglo-American democracies, the conservative regime predominant in continental Europe, and the Nordic social democratic policy model. Some authors (e.g., Bonoli, 1997;Ferrera 1996) later added the Mediterranean type as another model of the welfare state, and more recent analyses sought to extend the typology to include the transitional, post-socialist family of nations (Castles & Obinger, 2008;Fenger, 2007). These welfare regimes represent different ways of organizing a society, not only the welfare policy, but also the productive sector of the capitalistic economy (Goodin, Headey, Muffels, & Driven, 1999).…”

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The Perceived Quality of Working Life in Croatia and the European Union

Šverko

Galić

2014

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This study explores the perceived quality of working life (QWL) in Croatia and in two groups of EU countries: the EU17, which comprises established market economies of Western Europe, and the EU10, which consists of ten Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The analysis draws upon the database of the Fifth European Working Conditions Survey, the fieldwork for which was carried out in 2010. The number of participants was 24,424 in the EU17, 10,948 in the EU10, and 1,100 in the Croatian sample. Four dimensions have been constructed to measure the QWL: (1) economic security, (2) social relations at work, (3) meaningfulness of work, and (4) autonomy and participation in making decisions. The results show that the CEE countries lag behind the Western European countries, in particular in economic security. In a hierarchical cluster analysis the two groups are bundled together in separate clusters, indicating that a pronounced East-West divide in quality of working life continues to exist. Croatia, although with relatively high ratings on social relations, clusters together with the other transitional countries.

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The Perceived Quality of Working Life in Croatia and the European Union

Šverko

Galić

2014

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“…Source: OECD (2014 and the USA. These cases were selected based upon a welfare state typology, first established by Esping-Andersen, and are cited in the literature as examples of liberal welfare states 2 (Esping-Andersen 1990Bonoli and Kato 2004;Castles and Obinger 2008;Cho 2002;Häusermann and Palier 2008;Ahn and Lee 2012).…”

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Political parties as drivers of post-crisis social spending in liberal welfare states

McManus

2017

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In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, the challenges facing welfare states are unprecedented. While government leaders have been in broad agreement that the severity of the recession called for decisive actions to limit the costs of the crisis, national responses have differed significantly. This article seeks to explain these divergent patterns and answer the critical question: how has the crisis affected the politics of social spending across liberal welfare states? While political conflict over social spending may increase across all countries in the wake of an economic crises, partisanship is expected to have a stronger effect in liberal welfare states, due to weak automatic stabilizer effects and a reliance on discretionary spending. This research tests the effects of political parties on social spending across nine liberal welfare states (Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA) during the pre-crisis (1990-2007) and post-crisis (2008-2013) periods. It also provides in-depth analysis of the USA and the UK, two representative liberal welfare states who adopted highly dissimilar post-crisis social spending. The findings demonstrate that while political parties were not correlated with social spending during the pre-crisis period, after the global economic crisis they were significant in influencing social spending levels. This indicates an important shift in political dynamics across liberal welfare states over time that has not been fully accounted for by the existing literature.

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“…Switzerland has a delayed and limited welfare state, which differs greatly from its continental European neighbors (Castles and Obinger 2008 ). This is especially true in the fi eld of family policies for parents' leave entitlements.…”

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Fathers on Leave Alone in Switzerland: Agents of Social Change?

Valarino

2016

Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality

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Worlds, Families, Regimes: Country Clusters in European and OECD Area Public Policy

Cited by 153 publications

References 33 publications

The Perceived Quality of Working Life in Croatia and the European Union

The Perceived Quality of Working Life in Croatia and the European Union

Political parties as drivers of post-crisis social spending in liberal welfare states

Fathers on Leave Alone in Switzerland: Agents of Social Change?

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