Which political forces are responsible for retrenchment in social services in social democratic welfare states?

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Cover of the book Which political forces are responsible for retrenchment in social services in social democratic welfare states? by Lucius Taeschler, GRIN Publishing
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Author: Lucius Taeschler ISBN: 9783638736459
Publisher: GRIN Publishing Publication: June 13, 2007
Imprint: GRIN Publishing Language: English
Author: Lucius Taeschler
ISBN: 9783638736459
Publisher: GRIN Publishing
Publication: June 13, 2007
Imprint: GRIN Publishing
Language: English

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Western Europe, grade: 1, University of Zurich, 30 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: A new impact to welfare state research was given by the crisis and the resulting, far-reaching changes during the past two decades. Not only the development and extension of the welfare state, but also the retrenchment became a topic of theorists and researchers. There exist a lot of explanations about the reasons of the crisis of the welfare state: globalization and the liberalization of the economy, heavily state-debts and the ageing society were some of the most dominant. In this paper, I'm not primary interested in the reasons of retrenchment. I'll focus on how they were realized. Which groups are interested in a smaller welfare state? How does retrenchment work on the political level? The paper discusses these questions on the basis of the situation in Sweden during the early 1990's. The analysis bases on an (rational choice orientated) historical institutionalism approach, stressing the effects of path dependency. The results show, that mainly market-liberal tended to favor retrenchment. But also the Social Democratic party was partly in favor for some reforms, having chosen a pragmatic strategy to defend the core of the Swedish welfare system. All in all, the economic crisis in the 90s changed the character of the Swedish welfare state. It lost a lot of its universalism, private sectors were introduced and 'quasi-markets' established. Also the unemployment rate is still very high, compared with the ones before the crisis. Furthermore, the tendency of the welfare state seems to go into the direction of more costumer-choice - and thus more quasi-markets and private sectors.

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Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Western Europe, grade: 1, University of Zurich, 30 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: A new impact to welfare state research was given by the crisis and the resulting, far-reaching changes during the past two decades. Not only the development and extension of the welfare state, but also the retrenchment became a topic of theorists and researchers. There exist a lot of explanations about the reasons of the crisis of the welfare state: globalization and the liberalization of the economy, heavily state-debts and the ageing society were some of the most dominant. In this paper, I'm not primary interested in the reasons of retrenchment. I'll focus on how they were realized. Which groups are interested in a smaller welfare state? How does retrenchment work on the political level? The paper discusses these questions on the basis of the situation in Sweden during the early 1990's. The analysis bases on an (rational choice orientated) historical institutionalism approach, stressing the effects of path dependency. The results show, that mainly market-liberal tended to favor retrenchment. But also the Social Democratic party was partly in favor for some reforms, having chosen a pragmatic strategy to defend the core of the Swedish welfare system. All in all, the economic crisis in the 90s changed the character of the Swedish welfare state. It lost a lot of its universalism, private sectors were introduced and 'quasi-markets' established. Also the unemployment rate is still very high, compared with the ones before the crisis. Furthermore, the tendency of the welfare state seems to go into the direction of more costumer-choice - and thus more quasi-markets and private sectors.

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