The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

by Robert E. Goodin , Bruce Headey , Ruud Muffels , Henk-Jan Dirven

• ISBN13: 9780521593861
• ISBN10: 0521593867
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state. Through unique studies of Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, tracking individuals' socio-economic fate over ten years, the authors explore issues of economic growth and efficiency, of poverty and inequality, of social integration and social autonomy. The authors argue that the social democratic welfare regime of the Netherlands outperforms the corporatist German regime and the liberal US regime across all these social and economic objectives.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	1	(20)
Part I: Setting the scene
Reasons for welfare	21	(16)
Alternative institutional designs	37	(19)
National embodiments	56	(31)
Background expectations	87	(11)
Testing the theories with panels	98	(27)
Part II: One standard of success: external moral criteria
Promoting efficiency	125	(27)
Reducing poverty	152	(21)
Promoting equality	173	(14)
Promoting integration	187	(10)
Promoting stability	197	(14)
Promoting autonomy	211	(29)
Part III: Another standard of success: internal institutional criteria
The United States as a liberal welfare regime	240	(6)
The Netherlands as a social democratic welfare regime	246	(7)
Germany as a corporatist welfare regime	253	(6)
Conclusions	259	(6)
Appendix tables	265	(52)
References	317	(28)
Index	345