Finally the editor Christian Aspalter is describing Singapore! he himself sees the ambivalence to speak of Singapore as a welfare state at least as a residual one. The state hardly contributes anything to welfare. Nevertheless in the Central Providence Fund which he intensively describes, he finds a very fruitful welfare institution for the Singapore mobile Society. It is not clear what sense the theoretical introduction makes, as nobody in the book is referring to this except the editor himself in a short passage in his description of the NGO's in Hong Kong. Strangely also that in this chapter he not even mentions the preceding general one of [Raymond K. H. Chan] on Hong Kong's welfare system, let alone integrating the analysis. Richter reviews DISCOVERING THE WELFARE STATE IN EAST ASI...
Cet article prend comme point de départ la classification des Welfare State en Europe en trois régimes qualitativement différents établie à l'origine par Titmuss (1971) et reprise plus tard par [Esping-Andersen] (1990). Il tient compte, dans l'analyse de la conciliation entre vie familiale et vie professionnelle aujourd'hui, les critiques, qui ont été formulées à l'égard de cette division particulière des Welfare en l'accusant de parti pris en matière de genre. En conséquence, la distinction entre travail payé et travail non-paye, ainsi que la distinction entre le modèle de l'homme gagne-pain et le modèle du couple à deux revenus ont été pris en compte. Le Danemark, les Pays-Bas et le Royaume-Uni ont été étudiés en tant que castypes pour les régimes Scandinave, continental et atlantique...
Beginning in the 1980s, and accelerating after the fall of the Soviet Union, the international capitalist ruling classes again dominated the world as they had in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. The reformist mask of capitalism was discarded, and a vicious neoliberal "take-back" campaign began. The era of neoliberal globalization was proclaimed as the justification for a relentless attack on the welfare state and the trade unions on a world scale. As technology advanced, factories in high-wage areas were closed and redistributed around the globe to low-wage areas. Unions were faced with massive layoffs and contract demands from employers included a whole variety of concessions to cheapen the costs of labour in order to achieve global competitiveness. Unions were compelled to tak...
Taking the position that the structure of family policies plays a large role in shaping the Uves of families, this paper argues that comparative research should place even greater emphasis on approaching family policies as being components of a larger welfare state. In this way, cross-national comparisons of family policies and their impacts on the lives of families can take fuller advantage of well-established research on the factors that give rise to particular overall national policy approaches. In order to facilitate this, this paper contextualizes family policies within a welfare state regimes framework by analyzing characteristics of family policies using the method established by welfare state regimes theorists. In doing so, this analysis also focuses on the extent to which famil...
It is surely not to audacious to infer that Germans leave the parental home while still in education more than Italians because they have additional means to do so. Not only their parents, as in Italy, might support them, in addition students' subsidizes and training wages represent an additional (if not even the main) source of income. This relative economic independence from parents might facilitate the achievement of residential independence, or at least it increases their "bargain power" vis-a-vis their parents. Moreover, also the employment conditions of young people in Italy and West-Germany are quite different. The youth unemployment rate is always higher in Italy than in West-Germany. Yet, while in the mid '80s the Italian rate was Only' twice as much as the West-German's, in th...
...' financial transfer decisions in each state (co-residence and child lives apart) will depend u... to marriage and, last but not least, welfare regimes (Holdsworth, 2000). Next to (and result of...
From 1961 to 1973, Canada enjoyed robust economic growth, rising tax revenues and rising expenditures, and put in place the last bricks of a comprehensive welfare state: namely, medicare, unemployment insurance and the Canada Pension Plan. Real per capita revenues grew at an astounding seven per cent a year while real per capita spending grew at only a slightly less astounding rate of six per cent. The concerted expenditure restraint of the mid-1990s, combined with a booming economy, brought the federal deficit and debt situation under control as deficits were converted to surpluses and both the absolute level of debt and the debt-to-GDP ratio fell. The fiscal pain felt in the area of federal health and education transfers to the provinces was substantial. While the growth rates of real...
In Sweden de-familialization is since several decades an established policy in the sense that the state has acquired a significant responsibility for the welfare of individuals, independent of the family he/she belongs to. In debates concerning the relations between support from the welfare state and the family one recurring statement is that in taking over the family responsibility, the state has contributed to the weakening of support between family generations in Swedish families. Results from a survey covering 2666 randomly chosen individuals from 18 years regarding intergenerational support partly supports this assumption. What then about practical support? To which extent is there a flow of practical support between kin and which are the determinants behind such support? The focus...
I was astounded to read Peter Holle's assertion that laissez-faire economics is good for the poor. The modern welfare state was created to address the massive social problems caused by "small government" policies throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. This is historical fact -- not half-baked theory. A quick glance around the world further illustrates this. Those countries with high taxes, generous social programs and strong labour laws tend to have smaller proportions of people living in poverty than countries with the economic model he's advocating. They also tend to have healthier economies, less crime and fewer social problems. I read Doug Brown's comments bemoaning the restricted liquor laws in Manitoba and the impact on tailgating in the CFL. All I can say is boo hoo. I am...
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