Risk Inequality and Welfare States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Risk Inequality and Welfare States write by Philipp Rehm. This book was released on 2016-05-31. Risk Inequality and Welfare States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the distribution of risk within societies, this book presents a parsimonious theory of social policy emergence, divergence, and change. It is suitable for advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in political economy, social policy, labor market politics, political behavior, political psychology, sociology, and class stratification.
Wealth and Welfare States
Wealth and Welfare States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wealth and Welfare States write by Irwin Garfinkel. This book was released on 2010-01-28. Wealth and Welfare States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.
Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State
Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State write by Carsten Jensen. This book was released on 2019-09-20. Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State presents the dual risk model of the welfare state. Previous research in the field has predominantly studied the role of modernization and the associated labor market risks; this book gives equal weight to a different class of social risks, namely those related to the life cycle. Labor market and life cycle risks each have profound, but distinct consequences for the political process of the welfare state, including public opinion formation, party competition, and public policy-making. The dual risk model helps us to understand why some social programs are prioritized over others in terms of political attention and public spending - and how this prioritization leads to mounting economic inequalities in modern-day societies.
Insecure Alliances
Insecure Alliances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insecure Alliances write by Philipp Rehm. This book was released on 2012. Insecure Alliances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Popular support for the welfare state varies greatly across nations and policy domains. We argue that these variations -- vital to understanding the politics of the welfare state -- reflect in part the degree to which economic disadvantage (low income) and economic insecurity (high risk) are correlated. When the disadvantaged and insecure are mostly one and the same, the base of popular support for the welfare state is narrow. When the disadvantaged and insecure represent two distinct groups, popular support is broader and opinion less polarized. We test these predictions both across nations within a single policy area (unemployment insurance) and across policy domains within a single polity (the United States, using a new survey). Results are consistent with our predictions and are robust to myriad controls and specifications. When disadvantage and insecurity are more correlated, the welfare state is more contested.
Big Data and the Welfare State
Big Data and the Welfare State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Data and the Welfare State write by Torben Iversen. This book was released on 2022-05-25. Big Data and the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A core principle of the welfare state is that everyone pays taxes or contributions in exchange for universal insurance against social risks such as sickness, old age, unemployment, and plain bad luck. This solidarity principle assumes that everyone is a member of a single national insurance pool, and it is commonly explained by poor and asymmetric information, which undermines markets and creates the perception that we are all in the same boat. Living in the midst of an information revolution, this is no longer a satisfactory approach. This book explores, theoretically and empirically, the consequences of 'big data' for the politics of social protection. Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm argue that more and better data polarize preferences over public insurance and often segment social insurance into smaller, more homogenous, and less redistributive pools, using cases studies of health and unemployment insurance and statistical analyses of life insurance, credit markets, and public opinion.
