Welfare-State Regress in Western Europe: Politics, Institutions, Globalization, and Europeanization

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 29, Issue , 2003, Pages 589-609

  Korpi, Walter ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

E.U.; Globalization; Partisan politics; Unemployment; Welfare state retrenchment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242597048     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.095943     Document Type: Review

References (88)

1. Åberg R. 2003. Unemployment persistency, over-education and employment chances of the less educated. Eur. Social. Rev. In press
2. Ball L. 1999. Aggregate demand and long-run unemployment. Brookings Pap. Econ. Act. 2:189-248
3. Beveridge W. 1944. Full Employment in a Free Society. New York: Norton.
4. Blanchflower DG, Oswald AJ. 1994. The Wage Curve. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press
5. Bonoli G, George V, Taylor-Gooby P. 2000. European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment. Cambridge: Polity Press
6. Bonoli G, Palier B. 1998. Changing the politics of social programmes: innovative change in British and French welfare reforms. J. Eur. Soc. Policy 8:317-30
7. Borghans L, de Grip A, eds. 2000. The Overeducated Worker?: The Economics of Skill Utilization. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
8. Boyer R, Drache D, ed. 1996. States Against Markets: The Limits of Globalization. London: Routledge
9. Carlin W, Soskice D. 1997. Shocks to the system: the German political economy under stress. Natl. Inst. Econ. Rev. 159:57-76
10. Castles FG. 2001. On the political economy of recent public sector development. J. Eur. Soc. Policy 11:195-211
11. Clasen J, ed. 2001. What Future for Social Security? Debates and Reforms in National and Cross-National Perspective. The Hague: Kluwer Law Int.
12. Clayton R, Pontusson J. 1998. Welfare state retrenchment revisited: entitlement cuts, public sector restructuring, and inegalitarian trends in advanced capitalist societies. World Polit. 51:67-98
13. Craig FWS. 1975. British General Election Manifestos 1900-1974. London: Macmillan
14. Crosland A. 1956. The Future of Socialism. London: Cape
15. Deacon B. 2000. Globalization and Social Policy: The Threat to Equitable Welfare. Geneva: UN Res. Inst. Soc. Dev.
16. Deacon B, Hulse M, Stubbs P. 1997. Global Social Policy: International Organizations and the Future of Welfare. London: Sage
17. Esping-Andersen G. 1985. Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power. New Jersey: Princeton Univ. Press
18. Esping-Andersen G. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity
19. Esping-Andersen G, ed. 1996. Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptations in Global Economies. London: Sage
20. Ferrera M, Rhodes M, ed. 2000. Recasting European Welfare State. London: Frank Cass
21. Fligsten N, Merand F. 2002. Globalization or Europeanization? Evidence on the European economy since 1980. Acta Sociol. 45:7-22
22. Freeman RB. 1976. The Over-Educated American. New York: Academic
23. Garrett G. 1998. Partisan Politics in the Global Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press
24. Goul Andersen, J. 1999. Changing attitudes labor markets, new social divisions, and welfare state support: Denmark in the 1990s. See Svallfors & Taylor-Gooby 1999, pp. 13-33
25. Green-Pedersen C. 2001. The puzzle of Dutch welfare state retrenchment. West Eur. Polit. 24:135-50
26. Green-Pedersen C. 2002. The Politics of Justification. Party Competition and Welfare State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands From 1982 to 1998. Amsterdam: Amst. Univ. Press
27. Green-Pedersen C, Haverland M. 2002. The new politics and scholarship of the welfare state. J. Eur. Soc. Policy 12:43-51
28. Guillén AM, Álvarez S. 2001. Globalization and the Southern welfare states. See Palier et al. 2001, pp. 103-26
29. Hantrais L. 2000. Social Policy in the E. U. Basingstoke: Macmillan
30. Heywood P, Jones E, Rhodes M, eds. 2002. Developments in West European Politics 2. Basingstoke: Palgrave
31. Hicks A. 1999. Social Democracy & Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press
32. Hobson B. 2000. Economic citizenship: reflections through the E.U. policy mirror. In Gender and Citizenship in Transition, ed. B Hobson, pp. 84-117. London: Macmillan
33. Huber E, Stephens ID. 2001. Development and Crises of the Welfare State. Parties and Policies in Global Markets. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
34. Kautto M, ed. 1999. Nordic Social Policy Changing Welfare States. London: Routledge
35. Kautto M. 2000. Two of a Kind? Economic Crises, Policy Responses and Well-Being During the 1990's in Sweden and Finland. Stockholm: Fritzes
36. Kautto M, ed. 2001. Nordic Welfare States in the European Context. London: Routledge
37. Kerr C, Dunlop JT, Harbinson F, Meyers CA. 1964. Industrialism and Industrial Man. New York: Oxford
38. Kitschelt H. 2001. Partisan competition and welfare state retrenchment: When do politicians choose unpopular policies? See Pierson 2001c, pp. 265-302
39. Korpi W. 1983. The Democratic Class Struggle. London: Routledge Kegan Paul
40. Korpi W. 1989. Power, politics, and state autonomy in the development of social citizenship: social rights during sickness in eighteen OECD countries since 1930. Am. Social. Rev. 54:309-28
41. Korpi W. 2001. Contentious institutions: an augmented rational-actor analysis of the origins and path dependency of welfare state institutions in the western countries. Ration. Soc. 13:235-83
42. Korpi W. 2002. The great trough in unemployment: a long-term view of unemployment, inflation, strikes and the profit/wage ratio. Polit. Soc. 30:365-426
43. Korpi W, Palme J. 1998. The paradox of redistribution and the strategy of equality: welfare state institutions, inequality and poverty in the western countries. Am. Social. Rev. 63:661-87
44. Korpi W, Palme J. 2000. Distributive conflict, political mobilization and the welfare state: comparative patterns of emergence and retrenchment in the westernized countries. Presented at Annu. Conf. Am. Sociol. Assoc., Washington DC
45. Korpi W, Palme J. 2001. New politics and class politics in welfare state regress: a comparative analysis of retrenchment in 18 countries 1975-1995. Presented at Am. Polit. Sci. Assoc., San Francisco
46. Korpi W, Palme J. 2003. New politics and class politics in the context of austerity and globalization: welfare state regress in 18 countries 1975-1995. Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. In press
47. Kosonen P. 2001. Globalization and the Nordic welfare states. See Palier et al. 2001, pp. 153-72
48. Kuhnle S, ed. 2000. Survival of the European Welfare State. London: Routledge
49. Leibfried S, ed. 2001. Welfare State Futures. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press
50. Leibfried S, Pierson P. 1995. European Social Policy: Fragmentation and Integration. Washington DC: Brookings Inst.
51. Levy J. 1999. Vice into virtue? Progressive politics and welfare reform in continental Europe. Polit. Soc. 27:239-73
52. Lindbom A. 2002. The politics of welfare state reform. J. Eur. Public Policy 9:311-21
53. Mishra R. 1999. Globalization and the Welfare State. Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar
54. Montanari I. 1995. Harmonization of social policies and social regulation in the European community. Eur. J. Polit. Res. 27:21-45
55. Montanari I. 2000. Social Citizenship and Work in Welfare States. Comparative Studies on Convergence and on Gender. Stockholm: Swedish Inst. Soc. Res., Stockholm Univ.
56. Montanari I. 2001. Modernization, globalization and the welfare state: a comparative analysis of old and new convergence of social insurance since 1930. British J. Sociol. 52:469-94
57. Moreno L. 2000. The Spanish development of Southern European welfare. See Kuhnle 2000, pp. 146-65
58. Myles J. 1984. Old Age in the Welfare State. The Political Economy of Public Pensions. Boston: Little Brown
59. Myles J, Pierson P. 2001. The comparative political economy of pension reform. See Pierson 2001c, pp. 305-33
60. O'Connor JS. Orloff AS, Shaver S. 1999. States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press
61. OECD 1970. Inflation: The Present Problem. Paris: OECD
62. OECD 1999. Benefit Systems and Work Incentives. Paris: OECD
63. Offe C. 1984. Contradictions of the Welfare State. London: Hutchinson
64. Olsen GM. 2002. The Politics of the Welfare State: Canada, Sweden and the United States. Oxford & Ontario: Oxford Univ. Press
65. Palier B. 2000. Defrosting the French welfare state. West Eur. Polit. 23(Spec. issue):114-37
66. Palier B, Prior PM, Sykes MR, eds. 2001. Globalization and European Welfare States: Challenges and Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave
67. Palier B, Sykes R. 2001. Challenges and change: issues and perspectives in the analysis of globalization and the European welfare states. See Palier et al. 2001, pp. 1-16
68. Palme J, ed. 2002. Welfare in Sweden: The Balance Sheet for the 1990s. Stockholm: Fritzes
69. Palme J, Wennemo I. 1998. Swedish Social Security in the 1990s. Reform and Retrenchment. Välfärdsprojektet. Stockholm: Print. Works Cabinet Off. Minist.
70. Pierson P. 1994. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press
71. Pierson P. 1996. The new politics of the welfare state. World Polit. 48:143-79
72. Pierson P. 2001a. Coping with permanent austerity: welfare state restructuring in affluent democracies. See Pierson 2001c, pp. 410-56
73. Pierson P. 2001b. Post-industrial pressures on the mature welfare states. See Pierson 2001c, pp. 80-104
74. Pierson P, ed. 2001c. The New Politics of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press
75. Rehn G. 1987. State, economic policy and industrial relations in the 1980s: problems and trends. Econ. Ind. Democr. 8:16-93
76. Rhodes M. 1996. Globalization and West European welfare states: a critical review of recent debates. J. Eur. Soc. Policy 6:305-27
77. Rhodes M. 2002. Globalization, EMU and welfare state futures. See Heywood 2002, pp. 37-55
78. Ross F. 2000. Beyond Left and Right: the new partisan politics of welfare. Gov. Int. J. Policy Admin. 13:155-83
79. Sainsbury D. 1996. Gender Equality and Welfare States. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press
80. Scharpf FW, Schmidt VA, ed. 2000a. Welfare and Work in the Open Economy: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press
81. Scharpf FW, Schmidt VA, ed. 2000b. Welfare and Work in the Open Economy: From Vulnerability to Competitiveness. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press
82. Svallfors S. 1996. Välfärdsstatens moraliske Ekonomi: Välfärdsopinonen i 90-Talets Sverige. Umeå: Borea
83. Svallfors S. 1999. The middle class and welfare state retrenchment: attitudes to Swedish welfare policies. See Svallfors & Taylor-Gooby 1999, pp. 34-51
84. Svallfors S. 2003. Welfare regimes and welfare opinions: a comparison of eight Western countries. In The European Welfare Mix: Institutional Configuration and Distributional Outcome, ed. J Vogel. In press
85. Svallfors S, Taylor-Gooby P, eds. 1999. The End of the Welfare State? Responses to State Retrenchment. London: Routledge
86. Swank D. 2001. Political institutions and welfare state restructuring: the impact of institutions on social policy change in developed democracies. See Pierson 2001c, pp.197-237
87. Taylor-Gooby P. 1999. Hollowing out versus the new interventionism: public attitudes and welfare futures. See Svallfors & Taylor-Gooby 1999, pp. 1-12
88. van Kersbergen K. 2000. The declining resistance of welfare states to change? See Kuhnle 2000, pp. 19-36