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Social Risks, Welfare Regimes and Intended or Non-intended Effects of Policies

Q: Three worlds of Welfare Capitalism G. Esping-Andersen

Origins: ' Politics against Markets '= decommodification E-A zijn thesis beschreef Power Resource Theory (Walter Korpi). Variation of the strength of the labour movement explains the extent of welfare state variation: Democratic class struggle : idea that when you have won advantage if you are a worker, a wager, compared to if you are a capitalist, you are much more numerious; you can concour the legitimacy of a country=(*Citizenship capacity), you can control the government and can enact as a set of successive welfare reforms ; because you have a political democratic majority.

Q: Public policies and the family

Figure I . Conceptual dimensions for describing welfare state intervention in family responsibilities and dependencies.

4 important questions on Social Risks, Welfare Regimes and Intended or Non-intended Effects of Policies

Three worlds of Welfare Capitalism G. Esping-Andersen

Origins:
'Politics against Markets'=decommodification E-A zijn thesis beschreef
Power Resource Theory (Walter Korpi).

Variation of the strength of the labour movement explains the extent of welfare state variation:

Democratic class struggle: idea that when you have won advantage if you are a worker, a wager, compared to if you are a capitalist, you are much more numerious; you can concour the legitimacy of a country=(*Citizenship capacity), you can control the government and can enact as a set of successive welfare reforms; because you have a political democratic majority.

Three (3) modes of welfare risk management

3 forms of distribution in economic systems to identify 'three modes of risk management':

Reciprocity in households and mutualist associations
Cash nexus in markets (calculation and pricing of risks)
‘Authoritive’ redistribution by the state.

Esping-Andersen applied modes to welfare risks, but in principle could be used to analyse any kind of risk in a ‘risk society’ (Ulrich Beck)(e.g. risk of precariousness, environmental risks etc.)

Public policies and the family

Figure I. Conceptual dimensions for describing welfare state intervention in family responsibilities and dependencies.

Welfare states & conolialism

Gurminder Bahmbra & John Holmwood

Esping-Andersen’s Liberal welfare regimes are all settler capitalist countries (with UK special case)
Colonial and racial origins of (this kind of?) welfare state
Sale labour power as commodity movement away from commodified form of labour represented by enslavement(or equivalent of abolishing feudalism and women in Europe?)
Retrenchment only apparent class, actually ‘white’ working class starts to share experiences of ‘non-whites’
Revisting solidarity in postcolonial EU (Nordic countries implicated)?