The resistance of the four European worlds of welfare from the birth of the euro

Antón Losada () and Cristina Ares ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2021, vol. 41, issue 2, 271-291

Abstract: This article compares parliamentary preferences on welfare expenditure in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2013. The analysis is focused on the relationship between the type of welfare regime and the programmatic offer on the volume of social spending. Two indexes were calculated: social spending and social retrenchment. Upon emergence from the recession, an increasingly homogeneous conception is detected of social policies as being subordinated to economic policies; convergence has occurred within each of the worlds of welfare, maintaining the variation among them found prior to the Crisis. JEL Classification: H; H5; H51; H52; H53; H55.

Keywords: Political preferences; Manifesto Project; social spending; social retrenchment; welfare regimes; welfare state reforms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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