By Kees van Kersbergen, Philip Manow
ISBN-10: 0511650671
ISBN-13: 9780511650673
ISBN-10: 0521723957
ISBN-13: 9780521723954
ISBN-10: 0521897912
ISBN-13: 9780521897914
This ebook significantly revises tested wisdom in comparative welfare country experiences and introduces a brand new viewpoint on how faith formed smooth social security platforms. The interaction of societal cleavage constructions and electoral principles produced different political category coalitions maintaining the 3 welfare regimes of the Western global. In international locations with proportional electoral structures the absence or presence of state-church conflicts determined even if classification remained the dominant resource of coalition development or even if a political common sense no longer solely according to socio-economic pursuits (e.g. faith) was once brought into politics, rather social coverage. The political class-coalitions in international locations with majoritarian platforms, nonetheless, allowed just for the residual-liberal welfare country to emerge, as within the US or the united kingdom. This booklet additionally reconsiders the function of Protestantism. Reformed Protestantism considerably not on time and constrained sleek social coverage. The Lutheran country church buildings absolutely contributed to the creation of social defense courses.
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As one important ‘transmitting’ channel, parties were never simple porte-paroles of religious doctrines (or other ideologies), but above all interested in maximizing votes, seats, or office. Parties usually need to attract specific electoral groups and have to satisfy specific societal interests if they are to be elected. Welfare state regimes can then be explained as formulas of political compromise between different electoral and societal groups, a compromise between farmers’ and workers’ interests in Scandinavia, and both an interparty and intraparty compromise between workers and the Catholic middle class on Europe’s continent.
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Moreover, during the severe economic 28 Manow and van Kersbergen crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s, which had particularly affected Scandinavian agriculture, many farmers became less interested in unemployment payments, which would bridge the spells without work. Rather, they demanded active labor market policies to ease the transition to the second and third sector. The problem was perceived as one of sectoral change, in which the loss of employment in the first sector had to be compensated through employment growth in industry and services.
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