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- Nelson, Kenneth, et al.
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The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Social Welfare. - : Wiley. - 1369-6866 .- 1468-2397. ; 29:3, s. 285-289
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database provides the foundations for new comparative and longitudinal research on the causes behind, and the consequences of, welfare states and social citizenship rights. The SPIN database is oriented towards analyses of institutions as manifested in social policy legislation. To date, SPIN covers 40 countries, of which several have data on core social policy programmes from 1930. There are currently six data modules in SPIN, covering different social policy areas. The following research note describes the theoretical and conceptual basis of the SPIN project, as well as the data it contains.
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- Ferrarini, Tommy, et al.
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Social citizenship rights and social insurance replacement rate validity : pitfalls and possibilities
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of European Public Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-1763 .- 1466-4429. ; 20:9, s. 1251-1266
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The comparative analysis of welfare states has been greatly advanced by rights-based measurements of social provisions. Social insurance replacement rates have figured prominently here. Apparently, there is considerable confusion about the validity of replacement rates and their comparability across different datasets. The purpose of this study is to outline a refined institutional perspective in the comparative analysis of welfare states focusing on the character of social citizenship rights. We show that social insurance replacement rates from different datasets differ in their underlying theoretical framework for policy analysis and therefore capture different aspects of how welfare states secure the livelihood of citizens in periods of work incapacity. Analysing validity solely on the basis of replacement rate point estimates is therefore misleading. We show that the close focus on social citizenship rights and programmatic design in the Social Citizenship Indicator Programme (SCIP) carries great potential for causal welfare state analysis.
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- Korpi, Walter, 1934-
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Class and gender inequalities in different types of welfare states: the Social Citizenship Indicator Program (SCIP) : (Supplement 1)
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Journal of Social Welfare. - : Blackwell Publishing Ltd. - 1369-6866 .- 1468-2397. ; 19:Supplement 1, s. s14-s24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article considers the role of legislated welfare state institutions as mediators of effects of political and structural forces on citizens' levels of living of relevance to inequalities in health and mortality. The focus is on institutional structures of welfare state programmes relevant to class inequality, as indicated by income inequalities, and to gender inequality, conceived of as differences in agency. I introduce the Social Citizenship Indicator Program, a database providing quantitative and qualitative information on structures of main social insurance programmes in 18 countries from 1930 to 2000, on about 300,000 data points. It is used to delineate types of distributive institutions of relevance for income inequality. Institutions relevant for gendered agency inequality affect choices by women, especially mothers, between unpaid and paid work. Driving forces behind the emergence of differences in distributive institutions are discussed, and patterns of class and gender inequalities are outlined.
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- Korpi, Walter
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Den virtuella verklighetens tillväxt och det intellektuella samtalets förfall i forskarsamhället
- 1999
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 36:3, s. 80-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The growth of virtual reality and the decline of intellectual dialog in the community of social scientistsFor about two decades now, leading Swedish economists have been arguing that the expansion of Sweden's welfare state since 1970 has caused its economic growth to lag behind that of other comparable countries. As main evidence for this causal interpretation, they have pointed to the fact that since the early 1970s Sweden's percentage growth of GDP per capita has been below the OECD-average. In these terms, however, Sweden's growth lagged behind the OECD-average by the same amount already in the 1950s and 60s, the effect thus preceding its assumed cause by two decades. Furthermore, also other relatively rich countries such as Switzerland and the United States, have had percentage growth rates below the OECD-average. This reflects the so called catch-up effect, which tends to give the originally less rich countries a higher percentage growth rates than the originally rich countries, among them Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. A causal interpretation of this percentage difference to the OECD-average in terms of a ”Swedish” welfare state is thus not possible. Henrekson is however a true believer in the irrelevance of the catch-up effect, something which makes him shut his eyes.
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- Korpi, Walter, et al.
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Klasspolitik och "nypolitik" under knapphet och globalisering: : Åtstramning av välfärdsstater i 18 länder 1975-1995
- 2003
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 40:4, s. 45-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The relevance of socio-economic class and of class-related parties for policy making is a recurring issue in the social sciences. The “new politics” perspective holds that in the present era of austerity, class-based parties once driving welfare state expansion, have been superseded by powerful new interest groups of welfare state benefit recipients able to largely resist retrenchment pressures emanating from post-industrial forces.We argue that retrenchment can fruitfully be analyzed as distributive conflict involving a remaking of the early postwar social contract based on the full employment welfare state, a conflict in which partisan politics and welfare state institutions are likely to matter. Pointing to problems of conceptualization and measurement of the dependent variable in previous research, we bring in new data on the extent of retrenchment in social rights and show that significant retrenchment has taken place in several countries. Our analyses demonstrate that partisan politics remains significant for these kinds of reversed changes, even when we take account of contextual factors, such as constitutional structures, economic factors and globalization.
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- Korpi, Walter
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Om undran inför sociologerna
- 2013
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 50:3-4, s. 311-319
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sociology of everyday life aided by participant observation indicates that in the lifeworld, sociologists of today can be classified into a fivefold typology (from the highest to the lowest):1. Pegasuses (such as Bordieu, Foucault and Habermas)2. Pegasus-groomers3. Tree-huggers4. Stump-sitters5. Moles.The paper analyses the styles of life, letters, and work of these different types as well as their impact on the progress of sociology.
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- Korpi, Walter
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Politik och väljare bakom valutgången 1991
- 1993
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 30:1, s. 3-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Politics, issues and voters in the Swedish 1991 electionThe 1991 elections to the Swedish Riksdag resulted in a major setback for the Social Democrats, which have dominated Swedish politics since the 1930s. The party received a lower share of the votes than it had done since the 1920’s. The background to this defeat is here discussed largely on the bases of secondary analyses of opinion polls. Although longterm structural changes in Swedish society and internationally may have contributed to the defeat, its immediate background would appear to have been the new economic policies which the Social Democratic government initiated since 1982 and which gradually come to alienate the core of the grassroot supporters of the party.
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- Korpi, Walter, et al.
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Robin Hood, Matteus eller strikt likhet? : En jämförande studie av välfärdsstatens institutioner och strategier för att minska ojämlikhet och fattigdom i västländerna
- 1999
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 36:1, s. 53-92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Robin Hood, Matteus or strict equality. A comparative study of welfare state institutions and strategies to decrease inequality and poverty in the rich industrialized countries.How can we best reduce poverty and inequality? The debate on this question has raised other controversial issues: Should social policies be targeted to low-income groups or universal? Should benefits be equal for all or earnings-related? To answer these questions it is necessary to make three policy-relevant considerations: Firstly, the size of redistributive budgets is not fixed but reflects the structure of welfare state institutions. Secondly, there tends to be a tradeoff between the degree of low income targeting and the size of redistributive budgets. Thirdly, outcomes of market-based distribution are often even more unequal than those of earnings-related social insurance programs. However, traditional arguments in favor of targeting and flat-rate benefits, focusing on the distribution of the money actually transferred, have neglected these considerations. We argue that the design of social insurance institutions is of central importance for redistributive outcomes precisely because it affects the size of redistributive budgets, the tradeoff between targeting and budget size, and the public/private mix of benefit provisions. Our comparative analyses of the effects of different institutional types of welfare states on poverty and inequality are based on new data. The results indicate that institutional differences lead to unexpected outcomes and generate the paradox of redistribution: The more we target benefits at the poor and the more concerned we are with creating equality via equal public transfers to all, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality.
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