State as Sponsor

John Lapidus ()
Additional contact information
John Lapidus: University of Gothenburg

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Quest for a Divided Welfare State, 2019, pp 49-68 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The private welfare industry is dependent on state capital in three phases that partly overlap with each other. First, state capital as initial capital and venture capital. Second, state capital as a source of income. And third, directly linked to the emergence of the divided welfare state, the dependence on state capital as a co-financier of new, semi-private welfare services. The chapter elaborates on all the three phases. The first two phases are supply based and they inevitably lead to the third one, where the private welfare industry has direct or indirect access to state capital through tax breaks or freeriding on public infrastructure. Then, the welfare model changes on the demand side through the topping up opportunities offered by the private providers.

Keywords: Divided welfare state; Hidden welfare state; Fiscal welfare; Semi-privatization; Social tax expenditures; Swedish welfare model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-24784-3_4

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030247843

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24784-3_4

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().