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The Welfare State as Universal Social Security: A Global Analysis
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Abstract Over the past decades, the geography of comparative welfare state research has transformed. Whereas scholars used to focus on a limited number of advanced industrialised democracies, they now increasingly study developments in Europe’s periphery, East Asia, and Latin America. So, does this mean that... mehr
Over the past decades, the geography of comparative welfare state research has transformed. Whereas scholars used to focus on a limited number of advanced industrialised democracies, they now increasingly study developments in Europe’s periphery, East Asia, and Latin America. So, does this mean that the welfare state has spread around the world? To answer this question, we analyse different ways to measure welfare states and map their results. With the help of International Labour Organization and International Monetary Fund data, we explore measurements based on social expenditures, social rights, and social security legislations and show that each of them faces serious limitations in a global analysis of welfare states. For some measurements, we simply lack global data. For others, we risk misclassifying the extent and quality of some social protection systems. Finally, we present a measurement that is grounded in the idea that the welfare state is essentially about universalism. Relying on a conceptualisation of the welfare state as collective responsibility for the wellbeing of the entire population, we use universal social security as a yardstick. We measure this conceptualization through health and pension coverage and show that a growing number of countries have become welfare states by this definition. Yet, it is possible that at least some of these cases offer only basic levels of protection, we caution.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
soziale Sicherung; Universalismus; soziale Rechte; Wohlfahrtsstaat
Klassifikation
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Sozialpolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
social protection; universal social security; welfare effort
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 103-113
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 8 (2020) 1
Heftthema
"Universalism" or "Universalisms" in Social Policies?
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)