Einstürzende Neubauten: Welten und Varianten des Wohlfahrtskapitalismus

Waltraud Schelkle

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2017, vol. 70, issue 6, 389-397

Abstract: Research into the study of welfare capitalism has, to date, been concerned with a founding question of political economy, namely how can capitalism and democracy be combined? Ever since the publication of Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in 1990, the answer to this question has been sought in the identification of ideal types of welfare states that support a class compromise. This article argues, first, that popular regime typologies have run their course as a research programme, notwithstanding their many achievements. The main reason for this lies in a simplistic notion of the relationship between politics and economics in modern society. Secondly, the article outlines an alternative for analysing welfare provisions and their evolution, drawing on insights from the new politics and the new economics of welfare. This framework suggests a different question for the political economy of welfare, namely how can capitalism and democracy be kept distinct?

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2017-6-389

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